Re: August 2015 Report

[Nick Dimiduk <nd...@apache.org>]

(belated, non-binding) +1 from me. Thanks Julian.

-n

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org> wrote:

> Here's the draft report. I'll add it to
> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/August2015 shortly. Any
> errors/omissions?
>
> In particular, what do people think of the "Three most important
> issues to address in the move towards graduation" section? I think
> we're ready to graduate.
>
> Julian
>
> ---
>
>
> Calcite
>
> Calcite is a highly customizable engine for parsing and planning queries on
> data in a wide variety of formats. It allows database-like access, and in
> particular a SQL interface and advanced query optimization, for data not
> residing in a traditional database. (Renamed from Optiq on 2014-09-30.)
>
> Calcite has been incubating since 2014-05-19.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Add more PPMC members.
>   2. Demonstrate community robustness by rotating project tasks among
>      multiple project members.
>   3. There is no third thing. We are almost ready to graduate.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>   None.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
>   The last report was in April. (We are reporting a month late, because
>   we missed the July report.)
>
>   In July, there were 148 messages on dev@, 37 commits, 44 issues
>   created, 39 issues resolved by 10 contributors.
>
>   Diversity is improving. The 1.4 release will be the first release for
>   which Julian Hyde was not release manager.
>
>   Julian Hyde won best lightning talk at XLDB 2015 in May with the talk
>   "Apache Calcite: One planner fits all".
>
>   Tom Barber spoke about Calcite at ApacheCon NA in April.
>
>   Collaborations with other Apache projects continue:
>    * Phoenix has built a remote JDBC driver using Calcite’s Avatica
>      component.
>    * Phoenix is replacing their SQL parser & planner with Calcite.
>    * Samza is developing support for streaming SQL queries using
>       Calcite for parsing and planning.
>    * Kylin upgraded from 0.9.2 to 1.3.
>    * Collaboration with Hive and Drill continues.
>
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   We completed releases 1.2 and 1.3, and are preparing 1.4.
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   2015-05-30 apache-calcite-1.3.0-incubating
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>   2015-04-24 5 new committers
>   2015-12-31 1 new PMC member
>