Board report

[kishore g <g....@gmail.com>]

Forgot to send the board report to the group. I have already submitted the
report. Next time will send it in advance so that I have enough time to
gather feedback.

Apache Helix is a generic cluster management framework used to build
distributed systems and provides automatic partition management, fault
tolerance and elasticity.

Development
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Fixed minor bugs and added new features.
- Initial provisioning work to integrate with Resource managers like YARN
and Mesos
- Controller pipeline performance improvements.
- Task framework for tasks associated with resources
- Design and initial code for monitoring with Helix
- Atomic API to support admin operations like cluster creation etc.
- 150 new JIRAS since last report.
- 220 issues resolved.

- Redesigned website. Added version specific docs.
- Completed most of the work related to graduation

Community
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- 550+ emails on the dev list
- 100+ emails on the user list

Releases
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- Released 0.6.2 with critical bug fixes and security patches. [Stable]
- Released 0.7.0 with new high level api. [Alpha]
- Plan to release 0.7.x stable version.