+1 looks good - Sijie
On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 5:36 PM Matteo Merli <mme...@apache.org> wrote: > Sorry for sending out at very last minute (deadline is today). Please take > a look. > > I have added a paragraph regarding the branding discussion that happen in > early June (as discussed with Taylor then) since the previous draft was > already out at that point. > > > > ------- > > Pulsar > Pulsar is a highly scalable, low latency messaging platform running on > commodity hardware. It provides simple pub-sub semantics over topics, > guaranteed at-least-once delivery of messages, automatic cursor management > for > subscribers, and cross-datacenter replication. > > Pulsar has been incubating since 2017-06-01. > > Most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > None > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > Earlier in June there have been few discussions on the private list > regarding communications regarding Pulsar that were not coming from > PPMC or that were not respecting the ASF policies. Clarifications > followed between PPMC members, mentors and interested parties to > ensure the mistakes were made in good faith and, in particular, to > make sure everyone was fully has full understanding of ASF > policies. There was no other branding related issue after the first > occourence. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > The community added 8 new contributors that submitted pull-requests > which were merged into master. > > The number of users approaching the team on the Slack channel has > kept steadily increasing since the last report. Many users have > actively deployed. Pulsar for evaluation and production use cases. > > Different meetups were organized by project members and hosted by > Yahoo in Sunnyvale and Yahoo Japan in Tokyo. We have presented > Pulsar's introductions, updates on the state of the projects, > deep-dives and hands-on tutorial, including recorded podcasts. > > One talk on Pulsar was presented at one at OSCon in July and there > are several scheduled talks: 2 at ApacheCon in September, and 2 > others at Strata New York in September. > > Since the last report the number of weekly-active-users on the Slack > channel has increased from 53 to 88. > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > 28 authors have pushed 494 commits to master in the last 3 months. > > The project has made the its seventh release since joining the > Apache Incubator (2.1.0-incubating on Aug 2nd). > > This release introduced these new features: > > * Pulsar IO: A connector framework for moving data in and out of > Apache Pulsar leveraging Pulsar Functions runtime. > * A number of builtin connectors: (Aerospike, Cassandra, Kafka, > Kinesis, RabbitMQ, Twitter) > * Tiered Storage: An extension in Pulsar segment store to offload > older segments into long term storage (e.g. HDFS, S3). S3 support > is supported in 2.1 release. > * Stateful function: Pulsar Functions is able to use State API for > storing state within Pulsar. > * Pulsar Go Client > * Avro and Protobuf Schema support > > Community is actively working on a bug-fix release > (2.1.1-incubating) and on the next milestone, 2.2 release for which > the biggest feature will be support for SQL within Pulsar. > > Since June, 5 new PIPs (Pulsar Improvement Proposals) for > major feature/changes, have been submitted to the wiki and > discussed in the mailing list. > > PIP 23: Message Tracing By Interceptors > PIP 22: Pulsar Dead Letter Topic > PIP 21: Pulsar Edge Component > PIP 20: Mechanism to revoke TLS authentication > PIP 19: Pulsar SQL > > > How would you assess the podling's maturity? > Please feel free to add your own commentary. > > [ ] Initial setup > [ ] Working towards first release > [ ] Community building > [X] Nearing graduation > [ ] Other: > > Date of last release: > 2018-08-02, 2.1.0-incubating > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > 2018-06-11 - Ivan Kelly > 2018-06-11 - Jia Zhai > > > -- > Matteo Merli > <mme...@apache.org> >
