[ANNOUNCE] Hudi Community Weekly Update(2020-06-21 ~ 2020-06-28)

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

Dear community,

Nice to share Hudi community weekly update for 2020-06-21 ~ 2020-06-28 with
updates on discussion, features and tests.

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Discussion

[Benchmark] A discussion to public benchmarks for releases and had been
approved. [1]
[Writer Core] A discussion about making delete marker configurable,
currently hudi use _hoodie_is_deleted to mark the deleted record, we would
make it configurable for any boolean type field [2]


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Features

[Writer Core] Introduced abstraction for writing and reading different
types of base file formats [3]
[Writer Core] Run Cleaner async with writing [4]


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Tests

[Test] Add some data types to HoodieTestDataGenerator and fix some some
bugs[5]
[Test] Report test coverage by modules & parallelize CI [6]

[1]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r04e7f6c8a17672fd291586c9e959e76365142870249937c2157a1954%40%3Cdev.hudi.apache.org%3E
[2]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0c4bc9f50d2974052127c9c1007cb335ec46ef893eb48a336b491bc4%40%3Cdev.hudi.apache.org%3E
[3] https://jira.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-684
[4] https://jira.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-855
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-908
[6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-896



Best,
Leesf