Rya Working Group

[Puja Valiyil <pu...@gmail.com>]

Hi everyone,
Sorry for the short notice, but we were supposed to have the Rya working
group today.
Time: 12 PM EST
Call in: 18885981409; 7483409#

For an agenda, I was thinking that we could discuss what is remaining for
the release and see if someone can claim responsibility for finishing up
the final steps.

Hope everyone can make it -- again sorry for the short notice!

Thanks,
Puja

On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Adina Crainiceanu <ad...@usna.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I started the report for October, due on October 5 (Wednesday), Can someone
> please fill out the committed features? Any other comments and suggestions
> are also appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Adina
>
> Rya
>
> Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rea/) 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 documentation to be more formalized and more representative
> of the current codebase.
>   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?
>
>   * A new committer was invited and accepted to join the committers for
> Apache Rya (incubating).
>   * Talk on Rya at the DC Graph Database meetup on August 30, 2016
>   * Online presentation on Rya to a group of researchers and developpers
> from Cray on September 29, 2016
>   * Talk on Rya entitled "Accumulo Indexing Strategies for Searching
> Semantic Networks" accepted at Accumulo Summit, October 11, 2016
>   * The Rya "office hour" teleconference continues every other week, with
> few exceptions when people are too busy. Users and developers can ask
> questions, receive answers, discuss ideas for future developments. The
> minutes are sent to the dev@ list. Attendance at these meetings has grown
> beyond existing committers of the project to include new contributors.  New
> contributors have led the discussion for new features that they have helped
> develop.  We continue posting minutes and reference slides from the
> meetings on confluence to provide reference documentation to new
> contributors.
>   * PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the repository
> continue to be received
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   * Worked on the first release. The first release candidate was proposed,
> but the vote did not pass on the dev list. Working on the next release
> candidate.
>   * Resolved a handful of issues that users have encountered.
>   * Committed features:
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   Not applicable. Initial vote on first release candidate did not pass on
> dev list. Working on the next release candidate.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>   New committer Caleb Meier elected on August 31, 2016
>   The PPMC is currently discussing inviting more active contributors to
> become committers.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](rya) Josh Elser
>   [ ](rya) Edward J. Yoon
>   [ ](rya) Sean Busbey
>   [ ](rya) Venkatesh Seetharam
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
> --
> Dr. Adina Crainiceanu
> Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
> United States Naval Academy
> 410-293-6822
> adina@usna.edu
> http://www.usna.edu/Users/cs/adina/
>