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Posted to dev@rya.apache.org by Adina Crainiceanu <ad...@usna.edu> on 2016/03/30 21:01:09 UTC
April 2016 ASF report - please comment
Hi,
April 6 is the deadline for the April ASF report. Here is the first draft.
Please comment. I said in it that we have a website which is not yet true,
but it will be by the time we submit the report - I started working on it
and I'll submit it for review/publish it early next week after I come from
a conference.
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Rya
Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
supports SPARQL queries. Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built
on top of Accumulo. Rya uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and
query processing techniques that scale to billions of triples across
multiple nodes. Rya provides fast and easy access to the data through
SPARQL, a conventional query mechanism for RDF data.
Rya has been incubating since 2015-09-18.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Become familiar with the release process and have a first release as
part of the Apache Foundation
2. Expand the "how to" document to explain the ways new contributors can
become involved in the project, so we increase the size of the community.
3. Add new committers to the project.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
* We have a Rya "office hour" teleconference every other week. Users and
developers can ask questions, receive answers, discuss ideas for future
developments. The minutes are sent to the dev@ list
* We have more PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the
repository
* There were several ideas from Rya for Google Summer of Code, and a few
students expressed interest; one of them submitted a proposal
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Created a quick-start VM for users to try out Rya.
* Created a website for the project.
* Resolved a handful of issues that users have encountered.
* Committed features: incremental update for precomputed join indices
Date of last release:
Not applicable
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Not applicable
Signed-off-by:
[ ](rya) Josh Elser
[ ](rya) Edward J. Yoon
[ ](rya) Sean Busbey
[ ](rya) Venkatesh Seetharam
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--
Dr. Adina Crainiceanu
http://www.usna.edu/Users/cs/adina/
Re: April 2016 ASF report - please comment
Posted by Josh Elser <jo...@gmail.com>.
Adina Crainiceanu wrote:
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * Created a quick-start VM for users to try out Rya.
> * Created a website for the project.
This is a little brave of an assertion to make :). While what is
currently published at http://rya.incubator.apache.org is a website, it
doesn't meet the spirit of a podling website.
e.g. http://beam.incubator.apache.org/
The website should be a great place to tell the world (most importantly,
prospective community members) who you are and how to get involved.
For example, the website could contain a tutorial which tells people how
to download, setup and run the quick-start VM for Rya.
Re: April 2016 ASF report - please comment
Posted by Josh Elser <jo...@gmail.com>.
Awesome. I appreciate you trying to make this as accessible as possible!
Puja Valiyil wrote:
> This is mostly my fault-- I had thought that having these would spur more development, but the fact that Aaron and my office blocks google hangouts has made this difficult. I'll see about distributing my work telecon line-- that would allow for the meeting to be recorded as well.
> Also, we have had significantly more development this past month than the report indicates. Some features I can think off the top of my head:
> 1. Free text search support for mongo db
> 2. Additional geo indexing for mongodb
> 3. Extensions of examples for both mongo and accumulo backed Rya.
> 4. Extensions to query planning to support more complex pre-computed joins
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 30, 2016, at 5:51 PM, Josh Elser<jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sean Busbey wrote:
>>>> How has the community developed since the last report?
>>>>> * We have a Rya "office hour" teleconference every other week. Users and
>>>>> developers can ask questions, receive answers, discuss ideas for future
>>>>> developments. The minutes are sent to the dev@ list
>>>
>>> Currently I think folks have to reach out to get the telecon details.
>>> Any plans for it to be posted on the website? Along with a schedule?
>>> Maybe recordings?
>> Totally agree. Having meetings is fine, but you need to make sure everyone has equal opportunity to be a part of it. Personally, I think I've missed two that I could have attended because of short-notice.
Re: April 2016 ASF report - please comment
Posted by Puja Valiyil <pu...@gmail.com>.
This is mostly my fault-- I had thought that having these would spur more development, but the fact that Aaron and my office blocks google hangouts has made this difficult. I'll see about distributing my work telecon line-- that would allow for the meeting to be recorded as well.
Also, we have had significantly more development this past month than the report indicates. Some features I can think off the top of my head:
1. Free text search support for mongo db
2. Additional geo indexing for mongodb
3. Extensions of examples for both mongo and accumulo backed Rya.
4. Extensions to query planning to support more complex pre-computed joins
Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 30, 2016, at 5:51 PM, Josh Elser <jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sean Busbey wrote:
>>> How has the community developed since the last report?
>>> >
>>> > * We have a Rya "office hour" teleconference every other week. Users and
>>> > developers can ask questions, receive answers, discuss ideas for future
>>> > developments. The minutes are sent to the dev@ list
>>
>>
>> Currently I think folks have to reach out to get the telecon details.
>> Any plans for it to be posted on the website? Along with a schedule?
>> Maybe recordings?
>
> Totally agree. Having meetings is fine, but you need to make sure everyone has equal opportunity to be a part of it. Personally, I think I've missed two that I could have attended because of short-notice.
Re: April 2016 ASF report - please comment
Posted by Josh Elser <jo...@gmail.com>.
Sean Busbey wrote:
>> How has the community developed since the last report?
>> >
>> > * We have a Rya "office hour" teleconference every other week. Users and
>> > developers can ask questions, receive answers, discuss ideas for future
>> > developments. The minutes are sent to the dev@ list
>
>
> Currently I think folks have to reach out to get the telecon details.
> Any plans for it to be posted on the website? Along with a schedule?
> Maybe recordings?
>
Totally agree. Having meetings is fine, but you need to make sure
everyone has equal opportunity to be a part of it. Personally, I think
I've missed two that I could have attended because of short-notice.
Re: April 2016 ASF report - please comment
Posted by Adina Crainiceanu <ad...@usna.edu>.
Thank you all for comments. I'll submit the report today.
Puja - I added the extra code features in the report
Josh - you are completely right about the website. We have a new version
now which is more reasonable. Not perfect, but better than before.
Sean - about the first release - I think that time is the primary obstacle.
People were busy, but we should try to make this a priority.
-about the "office hours" - I think it was better today, with the connect
information being sent to the dev list in advance. We should post a
schedule on the website, and recordings or notes, now that we have a website
-about committers: some of the PR are from people whom I expect will become
committers
Here is the latest draft of the report. I'll submit it now and modify it if
needed:
Rya
Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
supports SPARQL queries. Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built
on top of Accumulo. Rya uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and
query processing techniques that scale to billions of triples across
multiple nodes. Rya provides fast and easy access to the data through
SPARQL, a conventional query mechanism for RDF data.
Rya has been incubating since 2015-09-18.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Become familiar with the release process and have a first release as
part of the Apache Foundation
2. Expand the "how to" document to explain the ways new contributors can
become involved in the project, so we increase the size of the community.
3. Add new committers to the project.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
* We have a Rya "office hour" teleconference every other week. We had
some technical difficulties with screen sharing, but we had a working
solution for the last meeting. Users and developers can ask questions,
receive answers, discuss ideas for future developments. The minutes are
sent to the dev@ list.
* We have more PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the
repository. We expect some of these non-committers to continue to submit
PRs and become committers.
* There were several ideas from Rya for Google Summer of Code, and a few
students expressed interest; one of them submitted a proposal
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Created a quick-start VM for users to try out Rya.
* Created a website for the project.
* Resolved a handful of issues that users have encountered.
* Committed features: incremental update for precomputed join indices,
extensions to query planning to support more complex precomputed join
indices, free text search support for MongoDB, additional Geo indexing for
MongoDB, extensions of examples for both Accumulo and MongoDB backed Rya
Date of last release:
Not applicable
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Not applicable
Signed-off-by:
[ ](rya) Josh Elser
[ ](rya) Edward J. Yoon
[ ](rya) Sean Busbey
[ ](rya) Venkatesh Seetharam
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Thank you,
Adina
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Sean Busbey <se...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for working through this early. A few questions below.
>
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > * We have a Rya "office hour" teleconference every other week. Users
> and
> > developers can ask questions, receive answers, discuss ideas for future
> > developments. The minutes are sent to the dev@ list
>
>
> Currently I think folks have to reach out to get the telecon details.
> Any plans for it to be posted on the website? Along with a schedule?
> Maybe recordings?
>
>
> > * We have more PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the
> > repository
> > * There were several ideas from Rya for Google Summer of Code, and a
> few
> > students expressed interest; one of them submitted a proposal
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > * Created a quick-start VM for users to try out Rya.
> > * Created a website for the project.
> > * Resolved a handful of issues that users have encountered.
> > * Committed features: incremental update for precomputed join indices
> >
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > Not applicable
>
>
> What's the next step needed for us to have a first release?
>
>
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > Not applicable
>
> We say above that we've had more PRs from non-committers. Are those
> mostly fly-by contributions?
>
>
>
>
> --
> Sean
>
--
Dr. Adina Crainiceanu
http://www.usna.edu/Users/cs/adina/
Re: April 2016 ASF report - please comment
Posted by Sean Busbey <se...@gmail.com>.
Thanks for working through this early. A few questions below.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> * We have a Rya "office hour" teleconference every other week. Users and
> developers can ask questions, receive answers, discuss ideas for future
> developments. The minutes are sent to the dev@ list
Currently I think folks have to reach out to get the telecon details.
Any plans for it to be posted on the website? Along with a schedule?
Maybe recordings?
> * We have more PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the
> repository
> * There were several ideas from Rya for Google Summer of Code, and a few
> students expressed interest; one of them submitted a proposal
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * Created a quick-start VM for users to try out Rya.
> * Created a website for the project.
> * Resolved a handful of issues that users have encountered.
> * Committed features: incremental update for precomputed join indices
>
>
> Date of last release:
>
> Not applicable
What's the next step needed for us to have a first release?
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Not applicable
We say above that we've had more PRs from non-committers. Are those
mostly fly-by contributions?
--
Sean