[ANNOUNCE] Hudi Community Weekly Update(2020-07-26 ~ 2020-08-02)

[leesf <le...@gmail.com>]

Dear community,

Nice to share Hudi community weekly update for 2020-07-26 ~ 2020-08-02 with
updates on features, bugfixs and tests.

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Discussion

[Metrics] A discussion about adding Metrics to Hudi Common so that it would
be reused in other modules. [1]
[Index] A discussion to integrate Hyperspace with Hudi, Hyperspace is a new
index for spark and might work in hudi [2]
[Release] A disscusion about timlines of releasing 0.6.0, and might push
the release date by a week [3]


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Features

[IT] Provide a basic implementation of test suite [4]
[Writer Core] Introduce configurations and new modes of sorting for
bulk_insert [5]


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Bugs

[Writer Core] Several performance fixes during finalizing writes [6]


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Tests

[Test] Move TestRawTripPayload and HoodieTestDataGenerator to hudi-common
 [7]
[Test] Add test for HoodieSyncCommand  [8]
[Test] Use Transformations, Assertions and SchemaTestUtil [9]


[1]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9b8e7f39713e54d352aa27e6457b54187e7c05ecd6c3d69afb224cb%40%3Cdev.hudi.apache.org%3E
[2]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9a6d481fa64f3105ba821ae27ceb7fc70452e52f3fd2e36b5c0c4a85%40%3Cdev.hudi.apache.org%3E
[3]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r87afe256c0b4c43089d38324b05d0845665eae751fee157f9c0a64b6%40%3Cdev.hudi.apache.org%3E
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-394
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-472
[6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1054
[7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-995
[8] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-703
[9] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-995


Best,
Leesf