Here's a first pass I took at writing the board report. I'll post it (with any edits) on the wiki tomorrow.
- Michael -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: svn commit: r824883 - /incubator/tashi/board/2009-10.txt Author: mryan3 Date: Tue Oct 13 19:00:03 2009 New Revision: 824883 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=824883&view=rev Log: First pass at report Added: incubator/tashi/board/2009-10.txt Added: incubator/tashi/board/2009-10.txt URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/tashi/board/2009-10.txt?rev=824883&view=auto ============================================================================== --- incubator/tashi/board/2009-10.txt (added) +++ incubator/tashi/board/2009-10.txt Tue Oct 13 19:00:03 2009 @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +2009-October Tashi Incubator Status Report + +Tashi has been incubating since September 2008. + +The Tashi project aims to build a software infrastructure for cloud computing +on massive internet-scale datasets (what we call Big Data). The idea is to +build a cluster management system that enables the Big Data that are stored in +a cluster/data center to be accessed, shared, manipulated, and computed on by +remote users in a convenient, efficient, and safe manner. + +Development activities have included a communication layer rewrite, the +introduction of an EC2 compatibility layer, a bridge that allows the use of +Maui as a scheduler for Tashi, patches for HVM booting in Xen, DNS updates, +using RPyC on Python 2.4, the SQL backend, the updateVm RPC, and the client +utility's output, fixes to and an expansion of the VM statistics collection +code in the Qemu backend. Additionally, a notes field was added to the host +definition, a syslog handler was added for logging, the scheduler was modified +to reduce the number of repeated messages, and the documentation for setting up +a single machine and configuring DHCP and DNS servers was updated. + +The project is still working toward building a larger user and development +community. We have recently been contacted by some potential users from Taiwan +HP, as seen on the -dev list. Additionally, two developers have increased the +quantity of patches submitted in this quarter, expanding the number of +developers working on the project. The upcoming tutorial at SC'09 [1] is +drawing near and we expect to draw in more potential users at the event. + +Items to be resolved before graduation: + * Prepare and review a release candidate + * Develop community diversity (currently Intel and CMU committers) + +[1] http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/view/tut168
