Here's the near-final draft of our quarterly report. Responses received by
5pm PDT today (May 8) will be incorporated.
Thanks,
Dave Barnes
## Description:
- Apache Geode provides a database-like consistency model, reliable
transaction processing and a shared-nothing architecture to maintain
very low latency performance with high concurrency processing.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Two full product releases, Apache Geode versions 1.5 and 1.6
- Community member Addison Huddy presented "What the Heck is an In-Memory
Data Grid?" at DataEngConf SF '18
- Launched an investigation into adding PR status updates based on CI jobs
(see INFRA-16409).
- In connection with SpringOne Platform, Pivotal, Inc., proposed to host a
Geode community event, prompting a discussion among the PMC regarding logo
use
## Health report:
- Mailing lists remain active and productive.
- JIRA tickets show that issues continue to be identified and resolved.
- We’re continuing to work on attracting new contributors and making it
easier to participate in the community.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 46 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- Dick Cavender was added to the PMC on Tue Feb 20 2018
- Lynn Hughes-Godfrey was added to the PMC on Mon Feb 19 2018
- Lynn Gallinat was added to the PMC on Mon Feb 19 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 87 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Michael W. Dodge at Wed Jan 24 2018
## Releases:
- Apache Geode 1.5.0 was released on Fri Apr 06 2018. Highlights include:
- Support for arithmetic operators in the WHERE clause of OQL queries
- Expanded gfsh (cli) functionality in the form of new commands and
enhancements to existing commands
- REST interface improvements
- Improved deadlock prevention
- Improved client capabilities, including enhancements to load
balancing and subscription behavior
- 18 new features
- 270 enhancements and improvements
- 226 bug fixes
A full list of issues that were resolved in Apache Geode 1.5 can be found
at
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12318420&version=12342395
- Apache Geode 1.6.0 was released on Fri May 04 2018 under the watchful
eye of Mike Stolz, in his debut as an Apache Geode Release Manager.
Highlights include:
- Serialization refinements
- JDBC connector improvements
- gfsh (cli) commands to configure and manage JNDI bindings
- Cluster configuration enhancements
- 17 new features
- 139 enhancements and improvements
- 148 bug fixes
A full list of issues that were resolved in Apache Geode 1.6 can be found
at
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12318420&version=12342867
## Mailing list activity:
Mailing lists have remained active and have maintained consistent usage
levels.
- dev@geode.apache.org:
- 182 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 818 emails sent to list (706 in previous quarter)
- iss...@geode.apache.org:
- 54 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 7028 emails sent to list (4960 in previous quarter)
- u...@geode.apache.org:
- 251 subscribers (up 12 in the last 3 months):
- 151 emails sent to list (228 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 612 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 701 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
