Small correction about Date of last release should be Jan 21, 2014 Other than that looks good to me. Thanks for writing up the report, Kasper.
- Henry On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Kasper Sørensen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Please provide your feedback for this draft/proposal report for April 2014: > > ------ > > MetaModel > > MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for > exploration and querying of different types of datastores. > > MetaModel has been incubating since 2013-06-12. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Finalize 4.1 release to demonstrate new functionality and evolution > within Apache > 2. More contributors to increase diversity of the community > 3. Determine approach to technical documentation across different > software versions > > 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? > > We finished our first release and are seeing some initial interest from > users. Mostly > there are interactions to add new features or connectivity to new types > of datastores. > For instance, it has been proposed to look into building connectivity to > semantic web > technologies, iRods, Apache Phoenix - and within the contributors group > there has been > some focus on adding HBase and Cassandra support. > > Discussions about community by-laws are not very active at this point. It > does not seem to be top-of-mind for most community members, and also > shepherd/mentor notes from January 2014 indicate that this is not > important right now. > > We're improving on the point of registering JIRA issues and running > patches through > the review board. By now this is the approach taken every time, unless a > commit is > found to be very trivial. > > Still the core group of developers seems a bit small, but by focusing on > broader > connectivity and keeping the releases coming, we think we can attract a > larger > community to the project. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Apache MetaModel 4.0.0-incubating was released on Jan 21. > > We are working on new features for a 4.1 version. The 4.1 version will > represent > the point in time where Apache MetaModel starts to show significant new > functionality > when compared to the old eobjects.org MetaModel project. > > A new module for providing easy Spring framework integration has been > implemented. > > Finishing touches are being made to a new module for connecting to Apache > HBase. > > Various API changes are being planned and discussed. > > Many bugfixes and performance improvements has been implemented. > > Date of last release: > > None > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > June 2013 > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](metamodel) Henry Saputra > [ ](metamodel) Arvind Prabhakar > [ ](metamodel) Matt Franklin > [ ](metamodel) Noah Slater
