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Posted to dev@helix.apache.org by kishore g <g....@gmail.com> on 2014/07/08 21:51:43 UTC

July Report

Hi,

Here is the report for July.

Please provide feedback, will submit it tonight.

Description
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Apache Helix is a generic cluster management framework used to build
distributed systems and provides automatic partition management, fault
tolerance and elasticity.

Development
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- Initial version of the Helix task framework is now complete, enabling
  scheduling and intelligent placement of jobs with DAG dependencies.
- Client-side robustness improvements
- Continued work in defining separation of API, SPI, and implementation
- Progress in building a Helix dashboard by a GSOC student
- 94 new JIRAS since last report
- 58 Issues resolved

Community
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- 270+ emails on the dev list
- 130+ emails on the user list
- Presentations at ApacheCon and Hadoop Summit
- Organized first public Helix meetup in the SF Bay Area

Releases
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- Making progress on 0.7.x stability
- Released 0.6.3 with critical bug fixes and security patches, the first
  release as TLP