Hi all,
Please see the October quarterly report draft below, and let me know if
there is anything missing or needs updates.
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## Description:
Apache TinkerPop is a graph computing framework for both graph databases
(OLTP) and graph analytic systems (OLAP).
## Project Status:
The project is ongoing with relatively high activities this past quarter.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Yang Xia on 2023-03-15.
- No new committer. Last addition was Cole Greer on 2023-05-30
## Project Activity:
The community is preparing for the maintenance release of 3.6.8 and 3.7.3,
currently planned to be released at the end of October [1]. This release
will contain a number of security updates, bug fixes in the core
functionality, as well as updates to improve implementation extensibility
for providers. One notable issue in serialization, which affected client
compatibility between 3.6.x and 3.7.x was resolved [2].
The community continues to be active in discussion and development for the
next major release of TinkerPop 4.0, aimed at increasing maintainability,
usability, extensibility, and security of the project. Several new
discussion threads have opened as development work unfolded. These include
refining IO specifications to reduce serialization barriers for driver
language variants [3], unifying connection options across the language
variants [4], as well as improving usability in query execution strategy
construction [5] and profiling [6].
For early user preview, testing and feedback on the current implementation,
a milestone release of the TinkerPop 4.0 Gremlin Server and a subset of
drivers (Gremlin Java and Gremlin Python) is currently in discussion and
proposed for the end of November [7].
### Releases:
3.6.7 was released on 2024-04-08.
3.7.2 was released on 2024-04-08.
## Community Health:
The TinkerPop Community continues to have a steady flow of activity from
core committers, and occasional contributions from outside sources are in
line with previous quarters.
We were also happy to see TinkerPop highlighted in an Apache Groovy blog
[8], which featured the use of property graph database technologies with
Groovy.
We hosted another live event on Twitch [9], where we invited developers
from Amazon Neptune to chat about their recent integration of TinkerPop
3.7.x releases. All the recordings are available on our YouTube channel
[10]:
* TinkerPop Wide: Amazon Neptune and TinkerPop 3.7.x [11]
Presenter: Stephen Mallette, Kelvin Lawrence
## Report Links
[1]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/9c5y7pkd7wqyc971rcybk5mlqlto56qx
[2]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP-3105
[3]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/q7h5yzd2r064lv82njbmt6lmty4s24y7
[4]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/zmvvyozgoyl22d2x05vvn8lgrm8s3ckn
[5]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/xv235syvzgl06qcsqr0rrx8boch7ozjp
[6]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/y8zbyx1jm5whbsw5kmo5vp58l8z815qc
[7]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/hh58k28qy49lb9k7b9j4mnqvpxj0xf85
[8]: https://groovy.apache.org/blog/groovy-graph-databases
[9]: https://www.twitch.tv/apachetinkerpop
[10]: https://www.youtube.com/@apachetinkerpop
[11]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eAxypXrw5E
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Yang
