Here is the attached draft of our board report for this month. Please let me know if you'd like to see something changed or added.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Description: Apache TinkerPop is a graph computing framework for both graph databases (OLTP) and graph analytic systems (OLAP). ## Activity: TinkerPop released version 3.4.9 during this reporting period. This version was the largest release of the year in terms of the number of JIRA issues completed, almost matching the total number closed in all the previous releases of 2020 combined. Much of this activity was driven by existing committers who were re-focused on the project in the last quarter of the year. We'd alluded to this re-focus in our last report, as well as the notion of new contributors, but new contributor activity trailed off a bit as we passed through October. Hopefully, some of those folks will return with the start of this new year. We've decided to put a stake in the ground for release of 3.5.0, which has been in development for over a year now, and release it in the March/April timeframe. While it is not everything we had expected it to be, it does contain a lot of necessary dependency and runtime upgrades. We will therefore refer to it as a "heavy maintenance release" and push off some major features to a future version of 3.6.0.[1] In our last report, we'd also noted that we had started the process for bringing gremlint.com[2] into the project as the official Gremlin language formatter. At this point, the owners of gremlint are still settling paperwork on their end. The most recent update from the author of gremlint can be found here[3]. In addition to gremlint, a second code contribution proposal has been made recently to provide an ANTLR grammar for Gremlin along with related code[4]. This source code would also go through the IP Clearance process. This proposal is still in an early stage, but would hopefully be completed in time for release of 3.5.0. In the wider TinkerPop ecosystem, we've recognized HugeGraph[5] as a graph database provider. HugeGraph is high-speed, distributed and scalable OLTP and OLAP graph database with visualized analytics platform. The addition of HugeGraph further solidifies TinkerPop and the Gremlin graph query language as a critical component of the graph processing space, with support for over two dozen graph systems. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Releases: - 3.4.9 (December 7, 2020) ## PMC/Committer: - Last PMC addition was Jorge Bay-Gondra - October 2018 - Last committer addition was Divij Vaidya - November 2019 ## Links [1] https://s.apache.org/rq6y1 [2] https://gremlint.com/ [3] https://s.apache.org/cjmw3 [4] https://s.apache.org/ol56j [5] https://github.com/hugegraph/hugegraph
