This is svn access only correct? http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/January2013
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > Jason, > > Go ahead and throw that into the wiki. We can edit it there. > > It looks good so far (and quick!) > > I think that we should mention as a risk factor the problem that lots of > development is happening off-list. We need to shepherd that back onto the > list. > > Also, I have requested a wiki instance for Drill so that we can have people > contribute textually even before they have become committers. That should > help with unblocking participation. > > I think that availability of the reference interpreter will also unblock > lots of contributions. > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Jason <[email protected]> wrote: > > > (sorry if this got sent twice) > > > > Needs some fill-in and review: > > > > > > <begin> > > > > January 2013 > > > > Project Name: Apache Drill > > > > Project Summary: > > > > > > Issues: > > > > Discussions on these key areas were __very focused__ and productive > toward > > this project's graduation goals: > > Healthy discussion of target use cases from the community > > New Syntax Interpreter > > Continued Logical Plan Syntax discussion & development (with focus on > JSON) > > Leveraging existing ideas/lessons learned from Optiq, LucidDB, DynamoBI, > > Eigenbase and Saffron > > > > > > How has the community & project developed since the last report: > > > > User interest has slowed due to the Holiday season but discussion on the > > the above topics is healthy. Commit and list activity are consistent with > > the above. Development is continuing onward. > > > > An addition of employer supported contributor to the project. > > > > New users continue to ask to be formally part of this project. > > > > On going discussion with schema-less data scanners amongst the project > > members. > > > > > > List Summary: > > * http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-drill-dev/ > > * Jan 2013, ? subscribers > > * Dec 2012, 264 subscribers > > * Nov 2012, 73 (jira, focused discussions) > > > > * Oct 2012, 214 (svn, discussions, jira) > > * Sep 2012, 413 > > * Aug 2012, 85 > > > > > > </end> > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > There have been several meat-space developments for Drill lately. Here > > is > > > a quick summary: > > > > > > - There have been several proposals for syntax conventions for the > > logical > > > plan language. Three versions have been built. I built a version > along > > > the lines of LLVM and a JSON based version that used a constructor > > > convention along with tight binding of classes to operator types. > > Jacques > > > built a version on Jackson which used much looser binding and supported > > DAG > > > structuring much more easily. Overall, I feel that Jacques > > implementation > > > dominates the ones that I have done in essentially every way. I think > we > > > should go with his style. > > > > > > - Jacques has been following up his logical syntax work with a > reference > > > interpreter. I have been encouraging him to move to a > > > commit-early/commit-often style, but I think he is going to have a > > working > > > implementation very shortly. This should give Drill the ability to > take > > a > > > logical plan in JSON format and execute that plan directly, without > > > optimization on a single machine. It will make it possible to query > real > > > data sets and start experimenting with the logical plan language. It > > will > > > also allow people to start developing translators from query syntax to > > > logical plan and to start developing scanners. It will also provide a > > > functional reference that will guide the development of high > performance > > > execution systems. > > > > > > - Michael Hausenblas now has employer support for focusing on Drill at > > > least part-time. He has been visiting from Ireland at MapR > headquarters > > to > > > talk with Jacques and myself and has committed to building out use > cases > > > with sample data sets and queries. > > > > > > - Timothy Chen has been working with Jacques to develop scanners, > > > particularly with a view towards dealing with schema-less data in an > > > efficient fashion. Timothy seems a bit shy about participating > on-list, > > > but encouragement for doing that is on-going. > > > > > >
