I have a PR that's WIP but please don't wait on me finishing to cut the release this weekend.
The draft of release notes looks good. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 20, 2016, at 11:37 PM, sblackmon <sblack...@apache.org> wrote: > > I’m hoping to cut a release candidate for 0.4-incubating on Sunday - so > please try to PR anything you’ve been working on that’s ready by then - or > let me know if you need just a little more time for anything. > > The draft copy I’ve written to announce the release is below - feedback > welcome. > > — > > The Apache Streams team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Streams > 0.4-incubating. > > Apache Streams (incubating) unifies a diverse world of digital profiles and > online activities into common formats and vocabularies, and makes these > datasets accessible across a variety of databases, devices, and platforms for > streaming, browsing, search, sharing, and analytics use-cases. > > The project aims to provide simple two-way data interchange with popular REST > APIs in activity streams formats using a universal protocol. Streams > compatibility with multiple storage back-ends and ability to be embedded > within any java-based real-time or batch data processing platform ensures > that its interoperability features come with little technical baggage. > > 0.4-incubating adds the ability for consumer provider classes (twitter, > instagram, facebook, google+, rss, and youtube) to be run directly from a > linux command prompt or an sbt shell, and adds documentation on the project > website to help users get started collecting data with needing to build from > source first. Integration test coverage has been expanded to include data > pulls from third-party services using developer-supplied credentials, and > reading/writing data to databases launched within docker containers for > testing purposes. > > 0.4-incubating also adds classes and maven plugins capable of translating > json schemas, which might include dependencies on other json schemas within > the same source tree or hosted anywhere on the web, into source code (Java, > Scala), and resource file to help configure popular data frameworks > (cassandra, elasticsearch, hbase, hive, and pig) to analyze documents which > comply with those schemas. > > 0.4-incubating also includes updates to many third-party dependencies, adding > official support for Elasticsearch 2+, Mongo 3+, and Neo4j 3+, >
