The October 2016 board report has been submitted. On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Dylan Millikin <dylan.milli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah looking great! > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Marko Rodriguez <okramma...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Diiiiiamn — that is one solid report. > > > > Marko. > > > > http://markorodriguez.com > > > > > > > > > On Oct 4, 2016, at 8:36 AM, Stephen Mallette <spmalle...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > A lot of stuff seems to have happened since our last report - did I > miss > > > anything? > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------ > > > > > > ## Description: > > > Apache TinkerPop is a graph computing framework for both graph > databases > > > (OLTP) and graph analytic systems (OLAP). > > > > > > ## Activity: > > > TinkerPop has added a new member to the PMC in Jason Plurad and a new > > > committer in David Brown. > > > > > > TinkerPop released 3.1.4 and 3.2.2. 3.2.2 contains gremlin-python[1], > > > which > > > officially opens TinkerPop up to the Python community. We tend to think > > > of Python as the most used language for TinkerPop outside of the JVM so > > > having native support for it should help expand usage. October will see > > > releases 3.1.5 and 3.2.3. These two releases are mostly bug fixes and > > > minor > > > usability improvements. We expect to continue to maintain both of these > > > lines of code (bug fixes for 3.1.4 and ongoing development of 3.2.2), > but > > > intend to begin work on a new major line in 3.3.0 in the coming weeks. > > > > > > In an effort to share the technical knowledge of "releasing TinkerPop", > > > we've > > > started to share the work of that process. While we've always had our > > > release > > > process documented[2] and a single release manager can handle releases, > > > we've determined it better (when possible) to have one release manager > > per > > > release line. Our initial trial with one release manager per version, > on > > > the > > > previous release, worked well. We hope to continue with this approach > for > > > future releases. > > > > > > Promotionally speaking, there have been a number of talks at > conferences > > > on, > > > or related, to TinkerPop. As a sample, here are the talks given by PMC > > > members: > > > > > > Graph Computing with Apache TinkerPop - Dr. Marko Rodriguez [3] > > > Graph Processing with Titan and Scylla - Jason Plurad [4] > > > > > > On the brand management front, it was noted by a PMC member (Jason > Plurad > > > had just been voted in almost to the day he made the report) that there > > > was > > > an individual selling products (baby clothes, mugs, t-shirts, etc.) on > > > Amazon > > > with TinkerPop graphics on them. Soon after, a second company was also > > > noted > > > selling similar products on an independent site. Neither, had > permission > > > from > > > Apache to do that. After some discussion with Trademarks, the PMC chair > > > sent > > > notice to both sites requesting that they acknowledge the marks in > their > > > product description. No response was received from the seller on > Amazon, > > > but > > > all products were quickly removed. No response was received from the > > second > > > seller, but on greater inspection of the site, it doesn't really appear > > to > > > be > > > terribly active or maintained. Next steps with respect to this seller > > have > > > yet to be discussed. > > > > > > ## Issues: > > > There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. > > > > > > ## Releases: > > > - 3.1.4 (September 6, 2016) > > > - 3.2.2 (September 6, 2016) > > > > > > ## PMC/Committer: > > > > > > - Last PMC addition was Jason Plurad - August 2016 > > > - Last committer addition was David Brown - August 2016 > > > > > > ## Links > > > > > > [1] http://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#gremlin-python > > > [2] http://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/dev/developer/#_ > > release_process > > > [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLR-I53Gl9g > > > [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RllAy9OjzIo > > > > >
