What your PMC sent to the apache board as our quarterly report

[Stack <st...@duboce.net>]

Every quarter the HBase PMC has to make a report to the Apache Board.  Here
is what we sent for this period (a minor, private item has been redacted).

Yours,
St.Ack



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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION

...

RELEASES

0.94.5 -- 02/15/2013
0.94.6 -- 03/22/2013
0.94.6.1 which replaces 0.94.6 -- 04/07/2013*

0.95.0, the first in a "Development" Series[3] of releases that preview
the coming 0.96.0 -- 04/07/2013

COMMITTERS

We added the following new committers over this period:

Amitanand Aiyer (Facebook) -- acube123@apache.org
Anoop Sam John (Intel, was Huawei at time of vote) --
anoopsamjohn@apache.org
Sergey Shelukhin (HortonWorks) -- sershe@apache.org

PMC

We added the following PMC members over this report's period:

Jimmy Xiang -- jxiang@apache.org
Nicolas Liochon -- nkeywal@apache.org

COMMUNITY

Contribution rate is healthy.

We had HBase Bay Area Meetups on:

01/23/2013 at WibiData in San Francisco [6]
02/28/2013 at the Intel Mission Campus in Santa Clara [5]
04/11/2013 at adroll in San Francisco [4]

We are busy putting together our second annual conference which
will happen June 13th, in San Francisco[7].

30 committers [2] (Was 26 in last report -- I think I counted wrong
in the last report)
872 subscribers to the dev list (Was 833 at last report)
1974 subscribers to the user list (Was 1896 at last report)

* < 24 hours between discovery of critical issue that broke rolling
upgrades,
and roll out of the release

2. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html
3. http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hbase.development.series
4. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/103587852/
5. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/96584102/
6. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/91381312/
7. http://hbasecon.com