]REPORT] HBase - April 2018

[Misty Stanley-Jones <mi...@apache.org>]

All,

HBase submits a report to the ASF board once a quarter, to inform the board
about project health. This is my second quarterly report as your PMC chair.
I'm sending the report to the user@ and dev@ mailing lists because you are
the project, and for transparency. If you have any questions about the
report or the running of the project, you can pose them to me or any other
PMC member or committer, or send an email to private@hbase.apache.org,
which every PMC member subscribes to.

Thanks,
Misty

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HBase is a distributed column-oriented database built on top of Hadoop
Common and Hadoop HDFS.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION

Board-only information removed from public report.

RELEASES

HBase 1.4.1 was released on Thu Feb 01 2018.

HBase 1.4.2 was released on Tue Feb 27 2018.

HBase 2.0.0-beta-2 was released on Tue Mar 06 2018.

hbase-thirdparty 2.1.0 was released on Sat Mar 23 2018.

HBase 1.3.2 was released on Wed Mar 28 2018.

HBase 1.4.3 was released on Thu Mar 29 2018.


ACTIVITY

HBaseCon US has been announced and will take place at Joseph McEnery
Convention Center in San Jose, CA, on June 18, 2018. Details can be found
at https://hbase.apache.org/hbasecon-2018/, and session proposals are
currently being solicited. Thanks to Josh Elser for heading up organization
of this event.

In addition, the second annual HBaseCon Asia is being held in Beijing,
China, on Aug. 17, 2018. The event will be sponsored by Alibaba, Huawei,
and Xiaomi. Admission will be free to attendees. Thanks to Yu Li for
coordinating the event.

Development toward a HBase 2.0.0 release is going well, with the second
beta released in early March. Thanks to Michael Stack for driving the 2.0.0
effort. Aside from the code itself, there has been a strong focus on
stability and performance improvements, as well as documentation for new
features and improvements.

Work on the HBase 1.4.x line is going well, with the releases of 1.4.1,
1.4.2, and 1.4.3 this quarter.

The 1.3.x line is also seeing progress, with the 1.3.2 release.

Three committers agreed to step up as PMC members during this reporting
period:

- Ashish Singhi was added to the PMC on Sun Feb 25 2018
- Mike Drob was added to the PMC on Fri Feb 23 2018
- Guanghao Zhang was added to the PMC on Sun Feb 25 2018

Two contributors became committers during this reporting period:

- Peter Somogyi was added as a committer on Wed Feb 21 2018
- Zach York was added as a committer on Thu Mar 01 2018

Thanks to the new committers and PMC members for agreeing to take on more
responsibilities in the project.

STATS

The dev@ mailing list saw a slight decline in subscribers over the last
quarter, and a 4% decrease in traffic.

The user@ mailing list saw a a slight decline in subscribers as well, but a
10% increase in traffic.

73 committers (+3 from last quarter)
41 PMC members (+2 from last quarter)
664 JIRA tickets created (down from 755 last quarter)
651 JIRA tickets closed/resolved (down from 730 last quarter)