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HBase

16 Oct 2024 [Duo Zhang / JB]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.
hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.
hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.
hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.
hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.
hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.
hbase-kustomize is for deploying HBase on kubernetes, still under development.

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing
Issues for the board: None

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (14 years ago)
There are currently 107 committers and 60 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Pankaj Kumar on 2024-07-02.
- Ray Mattingly was added as committer on 2024-09-10

## Project Activity:
hbase-thirdparty-4.1.9 was released on 2024-09-27.
hbase-thirdparty-4.1.8 was released on 2024-08-31.
2.5.10 was released on 2024-07-24.
2.5.9 was released on 2024-07-15.

We moved our official slack channel to the one in the-asf.slack.com
https://lists.apache.org/thread/cyr8vfxvfqm2srz7m1kkp4mkk015r8wx

The reason why 2.5.10 followed immediately after 2.5.9 was because we found a
critical bug in 2.5.9.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/wnczhn46pf6t05w2xstg26mdzy0qgd5p

We have done most API cleanups for the final 3.0.0 release and started to
audit the git commit history and jira issues.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/j9z17zonrzqq8x12tndskh4tyblcgjmy
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-24888
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28844

We have put up 2.6.1RC0 but there are several incompatible changes.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/j3sv12msdcpk9sh4g7hq5v8q560zknjn

We started a discussion about migrating from Jenkins to GitHub Actions for CI
https://lists.apache.org/thread/z6o5hhsd9goh5j7fcl4bnwzsktlwlwl4

## Community Health:
- dev@hbase.apache.org:
966 subscribers(962 in the previous quarter)
527 emails sent to list(575 in the previous quarter)

- user@hbase.apache.org:
1985 subscribers(1991 in the previous quarter)
36 emails sent to list(83 in the previous quarter)

- user-zh@hbase.apache.org
81 subscribers(79 in the previous quarter)
17 emails sent to list(13 in the previous quarter)

- Commit activity:
263 commits in the past quarter (-63% decrease)
31 code contributors in the past quarter (-32% change)

- GitHub PR activity:
151 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-43% change)
140 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-43% change)

Some members were on vacation during the quarter so the numbers decreased. We
made some progresses on the 3.0.0 release and 2.6.1 release will come out
soon.

17 Jul 2024 [Duo Zhang / Sander]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.
hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.
hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.
hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.
hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.
hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.
hbase-kustomize is for deploying HBase on kubernetes, still under development.

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing
Issues for the board:
According to the request from the trademarks team, we have added the statement
"Apache HBase, HBase,Apache, the Apache HBase logo and the ASF logo are either
registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation." to
our website's footer.

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (14 years ago)
There are currently 106 committers and 60 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Pankaj Kumar was added to the PMC on 2024-07-02
- Andor Molnar was added as committer on 2024-05-28

## Project Activity:
2.4.18 was released on 2024-05-25.
2.6.0 was released on 2024-05-17.
hbase-thirdparty-4.1.7 was released on 2024-04-19.

2.4.18 is the last release for the 2.4.x release line. We will mark 2.4.x EOL
soon.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/p5th8p7r8tpz2pvym3xmf5l09y22vyxx
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28475

We made the first release 2.6.0 for the 2.6.x minor release line.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/n2ynjrpsyrzplfv8cbv1z1goosj416nn

Finally we decided to drop JDK8 support on 3.x, and the minimum supported JDK
version for 3.x is bumped to JDK17. The work is almost done.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/y0pc3n1go0t26hjnp53dwcnkfxhffqx5
https://lists.apache.org/thread/n5ln0g2cgq7qm4ryp2gqwdbfrnh0jkyb
https://lists.apache.org/thread/fn94vy6oy6cnnvovrwzkzdlztr69859m
https://lists.apache.org/thread/vw940dcf8tjm41ztyofj7lq4v6lyfjtc
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28674

For 3.0.0-beta-2 release, we met some difficulties around the API clean up.
Some replacement works were only half done so we still need a lot of work
before actually purging some deprecated APIs.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/tyfjs5n9yrhslgnx5phkrvnpz0jbbg7z
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-24888

## Community Health:
- dev@hbase.apache.org:
966 subscribers(962 in the previous quarter)
575 emails sent to list(519 in the previous quarter)

- user@hbase.apache.org:
1987 subscribers(1991 in the previous quarter)
83 emails sent to list(36 in the previous quarter)

- user-zh@hbase.apache.org
79 subscribers(79 in the previous quarter)
13 emails sent to list(11 in the previous quarter)

- JIRA activity:
The statistics are broken so I do not include the data here.

- Commit activity:
684 commits in the past quarter (13% increase)
47 code contributors in the past quarter (11% increase)

- GitHub PR activity:
252 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (23% increase)
228 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (18% increase)

The community is overall healthy. We have started a new minor release line
2.6.x, and also made progress towards the 3.0.0-beta-2 release.

17 Apr 2024 [Duo Zhang / Sander]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.
hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.
hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.
hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.
hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.
hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.
hbase-kustomize is for deploying HBase on kubernetes, still under development.

## Project Status:
Current project status: ongoing
Issues for the board:
While resolving the issue about adding 'TM' superscript on hbase.a.o, the
trademark team said it should be '®' instead of 'TM', and also wanted to add
some notes on the footer of the page.
The notes have already been presented on the index page of hbase.a.o, we
replied to the email to ask whether this is enough but got no response yet. No
action has been made yet.

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (14 years ago)
There are currently 105 committers and 59 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Bryan Beaudreault on 2023-10-17.
- Istvan Toth was added as committer on 2024-04-02

## Project Activity:
2.5.8 was released on 2024-03-12.
hbase-thirdparty-4.1.6 was released on 2024-03-04.
3.0.0-beta-1 was released on 2024-01-14.

We have started the vote for releasing 2.6.0. The first RC sank because of a
compatibility issue.
Now we are
still discussing how to deal with the hbase-compression-xz module.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/g26lgy9z840ovo02vq75hys6krbmvxon
https://lists.apache.org/thread/on62z40rwotrcc8w1l5n55rd4zldho5g

3.0.0-beta-1 has been released. This is the first beta release for the 3.0.0
release line.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/lq19rwgy7q668ps8b4lz53my8m16t3yc

For 3.0.0-beta-2, we found a place where we still leaked the internal zookeeper
to end users, so we are still discussing how to deal with it. It needs to
allow users to use something like a URL/URI for specifying the hbase cluster
they want to connect to, instead of zookeeper connection string and path.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/233p65w5hj80m9plzjgvr8v16zff2d7y

## Community Health:
dev@hbase.apache.org:
962 subscribers(960 in the previous quarter)
519 emails sent to list(420 in the previous quarter)

user@hbase.apache.org:
1991 subscribers(1986 in the previous quarter)
36 emails sent to list(31 in the previous quarter)

user-zh@hbase.apache.org
79 subscribers(77 in the previous quarter)
11 emails sent to list(17 in the previous quarter)

- JIRA activity:
187 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (20% increase)
132 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (8% increase)

- Commit activity:
568 commits in the past quarter (21% increase)
41 code contributors in the past quarter (2% increase)

- GitHub PR activity:
193 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (19% increase)
183 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (24% increase)

The community is overall healthy. We will release 2.6.0 soon, and work towards
the 3.0.0-beta-2 release.

@Sander: follow up on trademark question

17 Jan 2024 [Duo Zhang / Shane]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.

hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.

hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.

hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.

hbase-kustomize is for deploying HBase on kubernetes, still under development.

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing

Issues for the board:
There is a request from the trademarks team about missing the 'TM' superscript
for some web pages on hbase.a.o.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/ncp2kv5shjnkm3zq20v5ft94fnwr8fv4
The issue has already been resolved.

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (14 years ago)
There are currently 104 committers and 59 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Bryan Beaudreault was added to the PMC on 2023-10-17
- No new committers. Last addition was Hui Ruan on 2023-09-15.

## Project Activity:
2.5.7 was released on 2023-12-24.
hbase-connectors-1.0.1 was released on 2023-10-27.
2.5.6 was released on 2023-10-20.

We have cut branch-2.6 and started to prepare the 2.6.0 release. There were
some discussions around the hadoop versions we want to support
https://lists.apache.org/thread/rt2ht8xmmr9vp77trsbs1db6f90pbpm8
We decided to follow the hadoop community, move the minimum hadoop 3 support
to 3.3.x, but for hbase-2.x, we still have support for 2.10.2, though there
are some CVEs.

We upgraded zookeeper dependencies to 3.8.x in a patch release due to some
CVEs, and it should be much less hurt than upgrading Hadoop.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/pbjfs75kpkd3y9dcydhmr2lotnv72s8w

There will be a HBase meetup in India.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/n8bb8tzghcxgg7w8fd80542fo9x6mmr9

## Community Health:
dev@hbase.apache.org:
960 subscribers(958 in the previous quarter)
420 emails sent to list(360 in the previous quarter)

user@hbase.apache.org:
1986 subscribers(1988 in the previous quarter)
31 emails sent to list(39 in the previous quarter)

user-zh@hbase.apache.org
77 subscribers(78 in the previous quarter)
17 emails sent to list(19 in the previous quarter)

- JIRA activity:
108 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-36% change)
75 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-32% change)

- Commit activity:
464 commits in the past quarter (20% increase)
40 code contributors in the past quarter (-4% change)

- GitHub PR activity:
160 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (4% increase)
145 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (no change)

The community is overall healthy. It is Christmas so recently the numbers
decreased a lot. We have cut branch-2.6 and planned to put up 2.6.0 release
candidate soon. And the vote for 3.0.0-beta-1 is ongoing.

18 Oct 2023 [Duo Zhang / Sander]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.

hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.

hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.

hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.

hbase-kustomize is for deploying HBase on kubernetes, still under development.

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing
Issues for the board: None

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (13 years ago)
There are currently 104 committers and 58 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Tak-Lon  Wu on 2023-01-29.
- Hui Ruan was added as committer on 2023-09-15

## Project Activity:
hbase-thirdparty-4.1.5 was released on 2023-10-06.

We have finished the presentation 'What's new in the recent and upcoming HBase
releases' on CoC Asia 2023.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27910
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1CN411H7Af

There are no new HBase releases this quartar. There are several regressions
which stops the new releases. We are busy working on fixing them. The plan is
to make the 2.5.6 release first, then cut branch-2.6 and release 2.6.0, and
then release 2.4.17 and mark branch-2.4 as EOL.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/bpnjwh8rjckwcn1dw3245r7ngcw49rj3
https://lists.apache.org/thread/ks0hdrpqhjkccb7ybt2x319onwcvzd4m
https://lists.apache.org/thread/6y6v746533j854q19bstvj24s7y74k5n
https://lists.apache.org/thread/tsszxm7gq04o3kvmk3s4kfxnddp3hhn1
https://lists.apache.org/thread/k77yr3r4fwkrrt5jb187oswz2qgcfj63

## Community Health:
- Mailing list activity:
dev@hbase.apache.org:
958 subscribers(958 in the previous quarter)
360 emails sent to list(490 in the previous quarter)

user@hbase.apache.org:
1988 subscribers(1990 in the previous quarter)
39 emails sent to list(42 in the previous quarter)

user-zh@hbase.apache.org
78 subscribers(78 in the previous quarter)
19 emails sent to list(50 in the previous quarter)

- JIRA activity:
166 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-10% change)
113 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-18% change)

- Commit activity:
386 commits in the past quarter (-33% decrease)
42 code contributors in the past quarter (5% increase)

- GitHub PR activity:
149 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-16% change)
146 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-3% change)

The community is overall healthy. The numbers are decreased since many
community members were on vacation during August and September.

We are approaching the final stages of preparing to cut branch-2.6 and create
the first beta release for the 3.0.0 release line. I am hopeful that we can
accomplish these milestones during the last quarter of 2023.

19 Jul 2023 [Duo Zhang / Craig]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.

hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.

hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.

hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.

hbase-kustomize is for deploying HBase on kubernetes, still under development.

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing
Issues for the board: None

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (13 years ago)
There are currently 103 committers and 58 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Tak-Lon  Wu on 2023-01-29.
- Nihal Jain was added as committer on 2023-04-29

## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
2.5.5 was released on 2023-06-13.
3.0.0-alpha-4 was released on 2023-06-07.
2.5.4 was released on 2023-04-14.

In the recent board report feedback, a board member suggested that we'd better
filter out the jira notification email from the dev list, otherwise it is
really hard to find out useful information. So we started a discussion thread
in the dev list about this, and the community members prefered to keep it as
is. We only send open/close notifications to the dev list and it is useful to
keep informed about what's happening.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/0wo98q9j93mkvn61wcwppwhkgfjm7mdn

We successfully held an online meet up on 04/19/2023, and discussed many
interesting topics.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/ostq5zqx96s7c2g3mdflvtzj6781orsh

We moved the stable pointer to 2.5.x.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/5crkzzxcnb471w4p0wqhppmjmln66pkd

We finally resolved all pending big features for 3.x and cut branch-3.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/np9bkln30zqm50k332h8bsjrtgzr9691

For better support for deploying HBase on top of kubernetes, we decided to
introduce a new repository for the kustomize files.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/wc0hs5pmhrcczox4ddl0942pd59sho6x

We submitted a presentation 'What's new in the recent and upcoming HBase
releases' to Community Over Code Asia 2023.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/fk1tr0sfk3zwbxxqcol3sbqz81mfdmrx
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27910

## Community Health:
- Mailing list activity:
dev@hbase.apache.org:
958 subscribers(959 in the previous quarter)
490 emails sent to list(595 in the previous quarter)

user@hbase.apache.org:
1990 subscribers(1987 in the previous quarter)
42 emails sent to list(43 in the previous quarter)

user-zh@hbase.apache.org
78 subscribers(78 in the previous quarter)
50 emails sent to list(43 in the previous quarter)

- JIRA activity:
183 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-17% change)
138 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-14% change)

- Commit activity:
579 commits in the past quarter (-1% decrease)
40 code contributors in the past quarter (-23% change)

- GitHub PR activity:
179 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-21% change)
149 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-36% change)

We are pleased to announce the long-awaited release of 3.0.0-alpha-4 and the
completion of branch-3. This represents a significant milestone in the
progress towards the final release of 3.0.0. In the 2.6.0 release, we have
successfully addressed multiple issues; however, there is still one critical
problem remaining. Under high load conditions, the server may encounter
out-of-memory errors if TLS is enabled. Fortunately, we have already
identified potential solutions, and we are optimistic that we will be able to
release 2.6.0 in the coming months.

19 Apr 2023 [Duo Zhang / Willem]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.

hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.

hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.

hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (13 years ago)
There are currently 102 committers and 58 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Tak-Lon  Wu was added to the PMC on 2023-01-29
- Tianhang Tang was added as committer on 2023-03-16

## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
2.4.16 was released on 2023-02-05.
2.5.3 was released on 2023-02-05.
hbase-thirdparty-4.1.4 was released on 2023-01-21.

The Ozone community started to work on support writing HBase WAL to Ozone. So
in the future we can run HBase fully on Ozone, without deploying a small HDFS
cluster for writing WAL.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/tcrp8vxxs3z12y36mpzx35txhpp7tvxv

The infra team delivered a self serving page for requesting jira account, so
we changed our README.md again.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/cvt50odv820j67167os3ckb9j6nftgms
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27689

We planned to hold a hybrid (physical and virtual) meetup in April, to discuss
several technical topics, and also what are we going to do in
ApacheCon/Community Over Code in October.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/xolczzstp4pzplrtfjkssk69jgs5wxj3

## Community Health:
- Mailing list activity:
dev@hbase.apache.org:
959 subscribers(956 in the previous quarter)
599 emails sent to list(434 in the previous quarter)

user@hbase.apache.org:
1987 subscribers(1987 in the previous quarter)
43 emails sent to list(59 in the previous quarter)

user-zh@hbase.apache.org
78 subscribers(78 in the previous quarter)
43 emails sent to list(18 in the previous quarter)

- JIRA activity:
224 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (62% increase)
160 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (26% increase)

- Commit activity:
588 commits in the past quarter (40% increase)
51 code contributors in the past quarter (24% increase)

- GitHub PR activity:
227 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (66% increase)
230 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (75% increase)

While the numbers showed improvement compared to the previous quarter, we are
still working on releasing versions 2.6.0 and 3.0.0-alpha-4. Despite this, we
have made progress towards these two releases this quarter. Various groups of
contributors in the community have begun deploying and testing HBase with mTLS
support, a key feature in. Additionally, we successfully completed the most
challenging sub-task for HBASE-27109, which is part of 3.0.0-alpha-4. This
progress makes us optimistic that we will soon be able to release both
versions.

18 Jan 2023 [Duo Zhang / Rich]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.

hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.

hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.

hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (13 years ago)
There are currently 101 committers and 57 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Xiaolin Ha on 2022-04-06.
- Liangjun He was added as committer on 2022-11-29
- Rushabh Shah was added as committer on 2022-12-06

## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
2.5.2 was released on 2022-12-03.
hbase-thirdparty-4.1.3 was released on 2022-11-15.
2.4.15 was released on 2022-10-28.
2.5.1 was released on 2022-10-28.
hbase-thirdparty-4.1.2 was released on 2022-10-10.

We finally find a way to publish binaries and artifacts compiled with hadoop3.
The guys from the Phoenix community confirmed that the solution worked
perfectly. And the Hudi project could also be benefited.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/y05gspk4mnxsz6nk7hc5ots8wt50366b
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27434
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27442
https://github.com/apache/hbase/pull/4917

The self registration of jira.a.o had been closed by infra team due to spam,
unfortunately HBase uses jira for issuing track. After discussion, we decided
to let users send a request email to private@hbase and let PMC members to
request a jira account for the contributor. We also changed our readme page to
mention this change.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/vgy1n8brdoxqg9qs7752hg8otjcnhyoz
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27513


## Community Health:
- Mailing list activity:
dev@hbase.apache.org:
956 subscribers(952 in the previous quarter)

user@hbase.apache.org:
1987 subscribers(1994 in the previous quarter)

user-zh@hbase.apache.org
78 subscribers(77 in the previous quarter)

- JIRA activity:
128 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-46% change)
120 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-42% change)

- Commit activity:
413 commits in the past quarter (-28% change)
42 code contributors in the past quarter (-14% change)

- GitHub PR activity:
132 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-42% change)
126 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-48% change)

We now have more than 400 invididual contributors(401 till now) on the github
statistic page!

The development activity was still decreased. This is partly because we are
still waiting for the final features to be landed on master and branch-2, i.e,
the replication improvements and backup support, so we can cut branch-3 and
branch-2.6 and start to making 3.0.0 and 2.6.0 release. Hope we can cut these
two branches in the next quarter and make more releases.

19 Oct 2022 [Duo Zhang / Bertrand]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.

hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.

hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.

hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (12 years ago)
There are currently 99 committers and 57 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Xiaolin Ha on 2022-04-06.
- No new committers. Last addition was Bryan Beaudreault on 2022-04-08.

## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
2.5.0 was released on 2022-08-31.
2.4.14 was released on 2022-08-29.
1.7.2 was released on 2022-08-09.

We released 1.7.2, and finally EOLed all the 1.x release lines.

https://lists.apache.org/thread/nwhwkz45n3ns0k8j3pcmn9swzglbr6s7
https://lists.apache.org/thread/nkfxkwosp0zvo14vks773lc5ghv7vld8
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27286

We added TLS support at RPC layer and planed to release it in 2.6.0.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26666
https://lists.apache.org/thread/zl1dr7jhgtw268ltstfjgngkrgr2cclk

We finally released 2.5.0, which is the first release of 2.5.x release line.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/dbtlgcog1sh5l8y3jwjno3zwc618xm0z

We discussed how to better support client with hadoop 3 support.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/y05gspk4mnxsz6nk7hc5ots8wt50366b
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27340
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27359

## Community Health:
- Mailing list activity:
dev@hbase.apache.org:
952 subscribers(948 in the previous quarter)

user@hbase.apache.org:
1994 subscribers(2000 in the previous quarter)

user-zh@hbase.apache.org
77 subscribers(75 in the previous quarter)

- JIRA activity:
231 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-3% change)
200 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-88% change)

- Commit activity:
566 commits in the past quarter (-13% change)
47 code contributors in the past quarter (-6% change)

- GitHub PR activity:
219 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-24% change)
239 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-14% change)

The big decrease of closed issues on jira is because we closed a bunch of
issues which have been included in old releases and resolved for a long time
in the past quarter, and we will resume this housekeeping again soon.. We
released 2.5.0, which is the first release of the 2.5.x release line. We
released 1.7.2 and finally EOLed all the 1.x release lines. We are currently
preparing the 2.6.0 release which contains TLS support, hope we could release
2.6.0 in the next few months. 3.0.0-alpha-4 is still waiting some features to
be landed, hope we could release it by the end of year.

20 Jul 2022 [Duo Zhang / Willem]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.

hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.

hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.

hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (12 years ago)
There are currently 99 committers and 57 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Xiaolin Ha was added to the PMC on 2022-04-06
- Bryan Beaudreault was added as committer on 2022-04-08

## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
2.4.13 was released on 2022-07-01.
3.0.0-alpha-3 was released on 2022-06-27.
hbase-thirdparty-4.1.1 was released on 2022-06-22.
2.4.12 was released on 2022-05-07.

We met some difficulty when releasing 2.5.0, it is about memory leak. We
reported the issue to netty and the netty community also helped.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26708
https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/12549
https://github.com/apache/hbase/pull/4597

We landed the spotless changes, it reduced the checkstyle errors a lot, but
developers in the community still need to get used to this new tool.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26617
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26899
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27023
https://lists.apache.org/thread/700n1wv877q5l35rbqmtl8qf2w0kjxqz

We made 3.0.0-alpha-3 release and also discussed the plan for the last alpha
release of 3.0.0.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/2tkvv1pz94wyx5kq4h1vmjj0c267zvjl

## Community Health:
- Mailing list activity:
dev@hbase.apache.org:
948 subscribers(953 in the previous quarter)

user@hbase.apache.org:
2000 subscribers(2001 in the previous quarter)

user-zh@hbase.apache.org
75 subscribers(74 in the previous quarter)

- JIRA activity:
236 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-20% change)
1675 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (536% increase)

- Commit activity:
615 commits in the past quarter (-22% decrease)
47 code contributors in the past quarter (-4% change)

- GitHub PR activity:
278 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-20% change)
264 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-21% change)

The number of the mailing list trends seems incorrect, the graph shows there
is a significant increase of the dev@hbase but the number is still 897, where
the board reports of Jan and Apr also had a number of 897, so I do not post
them above.

We closed a bunch of issues which have been included in old releases and
resolved for a long time, this is the reason why the traffic in dev list has
increased a lot. As said above, the 2.5.0 release was blocked by a critial
memory leak problem for quite a well. We released 3.0.0-alpha-3 and plan to
release 3.0.0-alpha-4 in the coming quartar. Hope in the next few month we
could release 2.5.0, EOL 1.x, and cut branch-3 for releasing beta releases of
3.x.

20 Apr 2022 [Duo Zhang / Sander]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.

hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.

hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.

hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.

## Issues:
The ci-hbase jenkins was broken for almost 3 days during 2.20 - 2.23, finally
the infra team recovered by restoring a backup on 2.17. But looking at the
status.apache.org page, there is no record about this outage. So we wonder
whether the current availabilty metrics is enough to reflect the real
'availability' of our system.

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (12 years ago)
There are currently 98 committers and 56 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 7:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Bharath Vissapragada on 2021-07-30.
- Chenglei was added as committer on 2022-02-15
- Yutong Xiao was added as committer on 2022-02-23

## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
2.4.11 was released on 2022-03-18.
hbase-thirdparty-4.1.0 was released on 2022-03-11.
2.4.10 was released on 2022-03-04.

We decided to use spotless to auto format our code to make our contributor
easier to fix the checkstyle issues when submitting PR.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/5r1kgmqkkgch8zx6wmhjvlv1kjdy9h59

We talked about whether to EOM branch-1, no final decision has been made but
we agreed to make a 1.7.2 release and checked again on 2022.7.21.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/8qy2lqtdwzc10tqnfdhrqvo35z6vkrvk

We talked about removing JDK8 support on master branch and finally we found a
way to compile with JDK11 but still maintain compatilibity with JDK8
https://lists.apache.org/thread/w5lrxkhswlonj09xf9hcwgvck3nsjdfx
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25465

We talked about which logging framework to use. The candidates were reload4j,
logback and log4j2. After some important improvements in log4j2, finally we
migrated all the new release lines to use log4j2. We still need to test the
log4j1 compability in the future.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/kfmjg6zmvdjqcwolj0oh634nzv42y806
https://lists.apache.org/thread/gvfb3jkg6t11cyds4jmpo7lrswmx28w3
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26802
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3341
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3394

We talked about how to better maintain our ref guide as we kept removing the
information for EOM release lines from the ref guide but the per release line
ref guide is not well maintained. The final decision is to only maintain the
ref guide on master branch and include all the information in it, include the
EOM release lines.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/bd6x1gnpgh0p3n4c2bnr1m4qpp7xxclc
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26930

## Community Health:
- Mailing list activity:
dev@hbase.apache.org:
953 subscribers(955 in the previous quarter)
897 emails sent to list(897 in the previous quarter)

user@hbase.apache.org:
2001 subscribers(2010 in the previous quarter)
88 emails sent to list(88 in the previous quarter)

user-zh@hbase.apache.org
74 subscribers(72 in the previous quarter)
10 emails sent to list(10 in the previous quarter)

- JIRA activity:
278 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-11% decrease)
247 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-10% decrease)

- Commit activity:
738 commits in the past quarter (-21% increase)
49 code contributors in the past quarter (-23% increase)

- GitHub PR activity:
325 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (2% increase)
313 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (no change)

The community is overall health. The 2.5.0 release is delayed because we want
to put more features to it, like better cloud object storage support, and also
because we spent sometime to decide which logging framework to use, reload4j,
logback or log4j2.And all these problems have been solved so we can expect the
2.5.0 release to come out soon.

19 Jan 2022 [Duo Zhang / Craig]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.

hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.

hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.

hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (12 years ago)
There are currently 96 committers and 56 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Bharath Vissapragada on 2021-07-30.
- Huang Zhuoyue was added as committer on 2021-10-14

## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
hbase-thirdparty-4.0.1 was released on 2021-12-28.
2.4.9 was released on 2021-12-24.
hbase-operator-tools-1.2.0 was released on 2021-12-24.
3.0.0-alpha-2 was released on 2021-12-23.
hbase-thirdparty-4.0.0 was released on 2021-12-10.
2.4.8 was released on 2021-11-03.
1.4.14 was released on 2021-10-25.
2.3.7 was released on 2021-10-19.
2.4.7 was released on 2021-10-18.

We have received a new donation and infra is currently setting up a new
dedicated jenkins controller for us.
https://s.apache.org/i1rox

The HBASE-26067 feature branch has been merged back to master and branch-2. It
makes HBase work better with cloud object stores which is very useful for the
cloud users and is a big step on making HBase cloud native.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26067
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26584
https://s.apache.org/2slqr
https://s.apache.org/nk6vr

The HBASE-26233 feature branch has been merged back to master. It greatly
reduces the latency of our region replication feature, and is also the first
step of decoupling the WAL system and replication framework, which is very
important for making HBase fully cloud native.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26233
https://s.apache.org/8q7h1
https://s.apache.org/die6s

We were also affected by the log4j2 vulnerabilities. Luckily our stable release
lines are still on log4j1. We released 3.0.0-alpha-2 and
hbase-operator-tools-1.2.0 for addressing the vulnerabilities. In one of the
release vote thread, the community members discussed whether we'd better
switch to logback instead of log4j2, or make HBase 'logging framework free'. No
decisions have been made so far.
https://s.apache.org/r1lbk
https://s.apache.org/53800

We have marked 2.3.x EOL and moved the stable pointer to 2.4.x.
https://s.apache.org/gbm4b
https://s.apache.org/5r5wq

We have made the final 1.4.14 release for 1.4.x release line and marked 1.4.x
EOL.
https://s.apache.org/znnxw

## Community Health:
- Mailing list activity:
dev@hbase.apache.org:
955 subscribers(957 in the previous quarter)
897 emails sent to list(747 in the previous quarter)

user@hbase.apache.org:
2010 subscribers(2017 in the previous quarter)
88 emails sent to list(95 in the previous quarter)

user-zh@hbase.apache.org
72 subscribers(72 in the previous quarter)
10 emails sent to list(11 in the previous quarter)

- JIRA activity:
308 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (17% increase)
263 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (19% increase)

- Commit activity:
914 commits in the past quarter (39% increase)
61 code contributors in the past quarter (19% increase)

- GitHub PR activity:
304 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (7% increase)
294 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (3% increase)

The increase of the numbers is partly because we merged two feature
branches back. And the log4j2 vulnerabilities also contribute extra traffic on
our dev mailing list as we have to keep publishing new RCs when there are new
log4j2 releases out. Currently we are looking forward on the first 2.5.x
release and the first beta release for 3.0.0.

20 Oct 2021 [Duo Zhang / Roman]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.

hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.

hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.

hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.

## Issues:
We were unable to reach consensus on a contentious design issue (the "split
meta" problem), after attempting mediation and collaborative design. The
effort is now on hold indefinitely and it is unclear if there will be a
successful outcome in the future.

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (11 years ago)
There are currently 95 committers and 56 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Bharath Vissapragada was added to the PMC on 2021-07-30
- Baiqiang Zhao was added as committer on 2021-07-07

## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
2.4.6 was released on 2021-09-18.
2.3.6 was released on 2021-08-02.
2.4.5 was released on 2021-07-31.
1.7.1 was released on 2021-07-23.
3.0.0-alpha-1 was released on 2021-07-20.

We are actively considering EOL for the 2.3.x release line.
https://s.apache.org/i56se

The work for better support object store had a good progress, we decided to
implement a general framework which could support different implementations.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26067
https://s.apache.org/zh8ei
https://s.apache.org/7hssk
https://s.apache.org/7thaz

We finally made our first alpha release for the 3.x release line.
https://s.apache.org/74sc5

We got trouble in our jenkins jobs as they would report an unstable result when
everything is fine, finally we found that it was a bug in the surefire plugin,
but so far there is no progress on fixing.
https://s.apache.org/mmsmo
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1821

We had some discussions on the InterfaceStability and InterfaceAudience
annotations and related modules, and the Yetus community planned to remove
these annotations because they want to drop the support for JDK8. We are not yet
sure as a community what approach we'll take.
https://s.apache.org/bi8qv
https://s.apache.org/nhvni
https://s.apache.org/uqae1

We backported the open telemetry support to branch-2, and it will be a key
feature for our 2.5 release line.
https://s.apache.org/9hd86

There was a big improvement on compression support in HBase. We introduced
several new modules to better support different compression codecs.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26259

We had been pinged by the infra again about eating all the spaces on jenkins
nodes, and this time we made some good progress on uploading the big files to
nightlies.apache.org.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-24936

The members in the community had posted several blogs about different modules
in HBase.
https://s.apache.org/b18si
https://s.apache.org/45ymf

## Community Health:
- Mailing list activity:
dev@hbase.apache.org:
957 subscribers(955 in the previous quarter)
747 emails sent to list(769 in the previous quarter)

user@hbase.apache.org:
2017 subscribers(2021 in the previous quarter)
95 emails sent to list(100 in the previous quarter)

user-zh@hbase.apache.org
72 subscribers(73 in the previous quarter)
11 emails sent to list(9 in the previous quarter)

- JIRA activity:
248 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-24% change)
203 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-21% change

- Commit activity:
605 commits in the past quarter (-17% decrease)
52 code contributors in the past quarter (-16% change)

- GitHub PR activity:
263 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-24% change)
261 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-16% change)

The community is overall healthy, we should try to cut branch-2.5 and make the
next alpha release for 3.0.0 soon.

21 Jul 2021 [Duo Zhang / Roy]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.

hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.

hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.

hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.

## Issues:

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (11 years ago)
There are currently 95 committers and 55 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Huaxiang Sun was added to the PMC on 2021-04-12
- Xiaolin Ha was added as committer on 2021-05-14
- Baiqiang Zhao was added as committer on 2021-07-07

## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
2.4.4 was released on 2021-06-14.
1.7.0 was released on 2021-06-12.
hbase-thirdparty-3.5.1 was released on 2021-06-07.
2.4.3 was released on 2021-06-01.
2.2.7 was released on 2021-04-11.

We discussed the time plan for releasing 3.0.0, and finally published the
first RC for the first alpha release of 3.0.0
https://s.apache.org/qehiw
https://s.apache.org/lmezw

We finally made the 2.2.7 release and EOLed the 2.2.x release line.
https://s.apache.org/dr7ml
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25813

The feature branch of changing our tracing system from HTrace to
OpenTelemetry HBASE-22120 has been merged.
https://s.apache.org/mw0ul

We discussed how to continue the work on better support object storage
https://s.apache.org/7mfr5
https://s.apache.org/f5t31

We started working to support JDK17.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26038

We faced a critical serialization problem in 1.7.0 which could prevent
users upgrading to 2.x. The decision is to make a 1.7.1 release soon with
all the new commits to branch-1.
https://s.apache.org/a0by3

## Community Health:
- Mailing list activity:
dev@hbase.apache.org:
955 subscribers(958 in the previous quarter)
885 emails sent to list(769 in the previous quarter)

user@hbase.apache.org:
2021 subscribers(2035 in the previous quarter)
100 emails sent to list(91 in the previous quarter)

user-zh@hbase.apache.org
73 subscribers(71 in the previous quarter)
9 emails sent to list(1 in the previous quarter)

- JIRA activity:
312 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (14% increase)
247 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-2% change)

- Commit activity:
715 commits in the past quarter (-22% decrease)
61 code contributors in the past quarter (-11% change)

- GitHub PR activity:
338 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (15% increase)
303 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-5% change)

The community is overall healthy and we have already started the
release process for our next major release.

21 Apr 2021 [Duo Zhang / Justin]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.

hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.

hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.

hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (11 years ago)
There are currently 93 committers and 55 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Huaxiang Sun was added to the PMC on 2021-04-12
- Geoffrey Jacoby was added as committer on 2021-04-09

## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
2.3.5 was released on 2021-03-31.
2.4.2 was released on 2021-03-17.
hbase-operator-tools-1.1.0 was released on 2021-02-20.
hbase-thirdparty-3.5.0 was released on 2021-02-20.
2.4.1 was released on 2021-01-26.
2.3.4 was released on 2021-01-22.

We discussed again on whether to EOL all 1.x, as There doesn't seem to be much
developer interest in branch-1 beyond occasional maintenance. Reid Chan
offered to complete the 1.7.0 release.
https://s.apache.org/u3q4t

We restarted the splittable meta design, and held an online meeting again to
discuss.
https://s.apache.org/i5mwy

We discussed whether to move the stable pointer to 2.4.x. This is a good sign
that the 2.x releases are more and more stable.
https://s.apache.org/z1iaq

The volunteer on maintaining hbase-backup had shown up and put up a design
discussion about the feature.
https://s.apache.org/ora3e

We found that it is a bit pain for keeping JIRA issue and git commit in sync
and what's more, we include CHANGES and RELEASENOTES directly in a release so
it will be easy to sink an RC if we found something wrong in these two files,
not the actual code. We discussed how to make RMs live better in the future.
https://s.apache.org/2nxzw

The first phase of moving our tracing system from HTrace to OpenTelemetry has
been done. We will start a vote soon to merge the feature branch back.
https://s.apache.org/9eekz

We finally migrated the legacy log4j1 logging system to log4j2. We also
reached out to the hadoop community to see if they would like to migrate too.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-19577
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-16206

## Community Health:
- Mailing list activity:
dev@hbase.apache.org:
958 subscribers(985 in the previous quarter)
769 emails sent to list(1014 in the previous quarter)

user@hbase.apache.org:
2035 subscribers(2080 in the previous quarter)
91 emails sent to list(85 in the previous quarter)

user-zh@hbase.apache.org
71 subscribers(71 in the previous quarter)
1 emails sent to list(35 in the previous quarter)

- JIRA activity:
261 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-16% decrease)
243 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-1% decrease)

- Commit activity:
902 commits in the past quarter (3% increase)
67 code contributors in the past quarter (-9% decrease)

- GitHub PR activity:
281 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-21% decrease)
309 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-8% decrease)

The community is still healthy but the development activity keeps
decreasing. We need to speed up the release process of the new major release,
i.e, we need to have a list of features we want to include in the new major
release and start to make progress.

20 Jan 2021 [Duo Zhang / Sam]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.

hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.

hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.

hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.

## Issues:

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (11 years ago)
There are currently 92 committers and 54 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Viraj Jasani on 2020-10-03.
- Yulin Niu was added as committer on 2020-12-03
- Xin Sun was added as committer on 2020-12-03

## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
2.4.0 was released on 2020-12-15.
hbase-thirdparty-3.4.1 was released on 2020-11-27.
2.3.3 was released on 2020-11-02.

A new minor release line 2.4.x has been established, which is the fifth minor
release line for 2.x.

We discussed whether to purge the hbase-backup module because it has not been
included in any releases and now lack maintenance and there was a user in
the community who wanted to maintain it.
https://s.apache.org/k5b9i

We discussed how to better make use of 'Signed-off-by' in the commit message.
There is no consensus so far, mainly because whether to use 'Reviewed-by'
instead of 'Signed-off-by' for non committer reviewers.
https://s.apache.org/tgjup

We decided to move the stable pointer to 2.3.x and EOL the 2.2.x release line.
The final release for 2.2.x will be 2.2.7.
https://s.apache.org/7rqow

We switched from OpenTracing to OpenTelemetry for implementing our tracing
system.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-22120

## Community Health:
- Mailing list activity:
dev@hbase.apache.org:
985 subscribers(989 in the previous quarter)
1014 emails sent to list(1167 in the previous quarter)

user@hbase.apache.org:
2080 subscribers(2085 in the previous quarter)
85 emails sent to list(87 in the previous quarter)

user-zh@hbase.apache.org
71 subscribers(69 in the previous quarter)
35 emails sent to list(41 in the previous quarter)

- JIRA activity:
296 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-35% decrease)
226 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-46% decrease)

- Commit activity:
809 commits in the past quarter (-30% decrease)
73 code contributors in the past quarter (1% increase)

- GitHub PR activity:
337 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-34% decrease)
313 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-38% decrease)

We had a new minor release this quarter but still not too many new commits.
This means 2.x is getting more and more stable and no big new features for
2.x. This is a sign that we may need to kick the 3.0.0 release. A good news is
that the number of contributors remained at the same level.

21 Oct 2020 [Duo Zhang / Shane]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.

hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.

hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.

hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (10 years ago)
There are currently 90 committers and 54 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Viraj Jasani was added to the PMC on 2020-10-03
- Zheng Wang was added as committer on 2020-09-24

## Project Activity:
Recent releases:

2.3.2 was released on 2020-09-25.
2.2.6 was released on 2020-09-04.
2.3.1 was released on 2020-08-22.
hbase-thirdparty-3.4.0 was released on 2020-08-20.
2.3.0 was released on 2020-07-13.

The 1.3.x release line was marked as EOL.
https://s.apache.org/jc1jd
https://s.apache.org/a5nml

We talked about the release plan to 1.7.0 and 2.4.0.
https://s.apache.org/w7t28
https://s.apache.org/g22v0

We migrated our jenkins jobs from builds.a.o to ci-hadoop.a.o.
https://s.apache.org/5ryjr

Xiaomi donated 10 machines as dedicated build machines for HBase project. They
are under the 'hbase' label of ci-hadoop.a.o. We migrated several jenkins jobs
to the new build machines so we will not eat too many resources of the shared
H nodes which are used by all Hadoop related projects. Thanks to the infra team,
especially Gavin McDonald for setting up the nodes and helping fixing
problems.
https://ci-hadoop.apache.org/label/hbase/
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25106

We had a tough collaboration problem across developers who had different
opinions about how to implement a new feature. There are basically two ways to
solve the problem and we could not reach an agreement on which way to go. Then
we went both ways on different feature branches and delayed the final decision
to the point of merging. This is informational only, we are not seeking board
assistance at this time.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11288
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-24950

## Community Health:
- Mailing list activity:
dev@hbase.apache.org:
989 subscribers(983 in the previous quarter)
1167 emails sent to list(1599 in the previous quarter)

user@hbase.apache.org:
2085 subscribers(2080 in the previous quarter)
87 emails sent to list(173 in the previous quarter)

user-zh@hbase.apache.org
69 subscribers(63 in the previous quarter)
41 emails sent to list(19 in the previous quarter)

- JIRA activity:
449 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-18% decrease)
416 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (2% increase)

- Commit activity:
1155 commits in the past quarter (-12% decrease)
72 code contributors in the past quarter (-15% decrease)

- GitHub PR activity:
503 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-17% decrease)
501 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-14% decrease)

The drop of the activities is because we only have patched releases this
quarter. Usually we will have more commits when we begin to stabilize a new
minor release.

15 Jul 2020 [Duo Zhang / Niclas]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.

hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.

hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.

hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.


## Issues:

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (10 years ago)
There are currently 89 committers and 53 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Lijin Bin was added to the PMC on 2020-05-25
- Wei-Chiu Chuang was added as committer on 2020-05-13

## Project Activity:
Recent releases:

2.2.5 was released on 2020-05-21.
hbase-thirdparty-3.3.0 was released on 2020-04-29.
2.1.10 was released on 2020-04-08.

2.3.0 is about to come out but the RC0 sank because we found some compatible
issues. New RCs is in place for voting.

We made progress on hbase-native-client. We got some new commits for cleaning
up the build system and testing.

2020-4-21 is our 10th anniversary, the foundation posted a blog about it
https://s.apache.org/m2pxf

Josh Elser has done a feathercast to talk about the history and the current
state of HBase.
https://s.apache.org/1m3gw

We discussed about 'Removing problematic terms from our project'
https://s.apache.org/cpk1y
Of the four individual proposals articulated in this discussion, there is
consensus on three, and differing opinions on the fourth, but sufficient
numbers of PMC have been supportive to sustain a release vote, unless the vote
becomes controversial, which we can deal with at the time. There is sufficient
support to move forward with contributions on the JIRAs highlighted in the
discussion.

## Community Health:
- Mailing list activity:
dev@hbase.apache.org:
983 subscribers(986 in the previous quarter)
1599 emails sent to list(1262 in the previous quarter)

user@hbase.apache.org:
2080 subscribers(2100 in the previous quarter)
173 emails sent to list(174 in the previous quarter)

user-zh@hbase.apache.org
63 subscribers(49 in the previous quarter)
19 emails sent to list(21 in the previous quarter)

- JIRA activity:
550 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (16% increase)
406 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (36% increase)

- Commit activity:
1318 commits in the past quarter (-9% decrease)
85 code contributors in the past quarter (26% increase)

- GitHub PR activity:
608 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (30% increase)
584 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (36% increase)

The development is still very active, and a good sign is that we have more
contributors this quarter.

15 Apr 2020 [Duo Zhang / Roy]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.

hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.

hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.

hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (10 years ago)
There are currently 88 committers and 52 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Guangxu Cheng on 2019-12-09.
- Bharath Vissapragada was added as committer on 2020-02-06

## Project Activity:
Apache HBase was founded at 2010-4-21, so 2020-4-21 is our 10th anniversary!

Recent releases:

2.2.4 was released on 2020-03-11.
1.6.0 was released on 2020-03-06.
1.4.13 was released on 2020-02-29.
2.1.9 was released on 2020-02-17.
2.2.3 was released on 2020-01-10.

We finally cut branch-2.3 and will mark branch-2.1 as EOL after the final
2.1.10 release.
https://s.apache.org/2630z
https://s.apache.org/dyojo
https://s.apache.org/l8v2v
https://s.apache.org/d4w2f

We moved stable pointer to 2.2.x, and created a stable-1 pointer to 1.4.x.
https://s.apache.org/geeg3
And after reconsideration, we decided to remove the stable-1 pointer.
https://s.apache.org/ync5i

There was a discussion about the release plan of 3.0.0
https://s.apache.org/2vs5g

We created a user-zh mailing list for users to communicate with Chinese.
https://s.apache.org/jnjl8

## Community Health:
- Mailing list activity:
dev@hbase.apache.org:
986 subscribers(990 in the previous quarter)
1262 emails sent to list(1157 in the previous quarter)

user@hbase.apache.org:
2100 subscribers(2121 in the previous quarter)
174 emails sent to list(144 in the previous quarter)

user-zh@hbase.apache.org
49 subscribers
21 emails sent to list

- JIRA activity:
455 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (26% increase)
280 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (8% increase)

- Commit activity:
1400 commits in the past quarter (45% increase)
68 code contributors in the past quarter (-6% decrease)

- GitHub PR activity:
437 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (32% increase)
407 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (32% increase)

The mailing list activity remained, it is a good news that we did not suffer
too much from the COVID-19. The development activity had a significant
increasing. This is because we were preparing the 2.3.0 release, and the
stabilizing work introduced a lot of commits.

15 Jan 2020 [Duo Zhang / Myrle]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.

hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.

hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.

hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (10 years ago)
There are currently 87 committers and 52 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Guangxu Cheng was added to the PMC on 2019-12-09
- Balazs Meszaros was added to the PMC on 2019-10-24
- Sakthi was added to the PMC on 2019-10-23
- Wellington Chevreuil was added to the PMC on 2019-10-23
- Ankit Singhal was added as committer on 2019-11-13
- Viraj Jasani was added as committer on 2019-12-27

## Project Activity:
Recent releases:

2.1.8 was released on 2019-12-03.
1.4.12 was released on 2019-11-29.
2.2.2 was released on 2019-10-25.
1.4.11 was released on 2019-10-24.
1.3.6 was released on 2019-10-20.
2.1.7 was released on 2019-10-08.

There are lots of users still on branch-1.x, there were some discussions about
the release plan for branch-1.x.

About the versioning and 1.5.1 release
https://s.apache.org/krmcu

About the EOL of branch-1.3
https://s.apache.org/b2jac

We decided to use GitHub PR instead of Review Board officially, since Review
Board is only available to committers now.
https://s.apache.org/mkkld

We decided to cut branch-2.3 soon and EOL branch-2.1, Nick Dimiduk volunteered
to be the release manager of branch-2.3.
https://s.apache.org/bwr9g

We discussed the hadoop versions and release plan for 3.0.0, Sean Busbey
volunteered to be the release manager of 3.0.0 and start to make alpha
releases for 3.0.0.
https://s.apache.org/gih8e
https://s.apache.org/u4lfo

## Community Health:
- Mailing list activity:
dev@hbase.apache.org:
990 subscribers(1015 in the previous quarter)
1157 emails sent to list(1297 in the previous quarter)

user@hbase.apache.org:
2121 subscribers(2150 in the previous quarter)
144 emails sent to list(268 in the previous quarter)

- JIRA activity:
312 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-37% decrease)
211 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-46% decrease)

- Commit activity:
834 commits in the past quarter (-53% decrease)
73 code contributors in the past quarter (-22% decrease)

- GitHub PR activity:
297 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-27% decrease)
267 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-36% decrease)

I think the number decreasing is partly because the long holiday in China in
October, and also the Chrismas holiday in some western countries in December.
And also, since branch-2 gets more and more stable, the number of bug fixes
will also be decreased day by day. We have already started to make the 3.0.0
release and bring more new features to the community.

16 Oct 2019 [Duo Zhang / Danny]

## Description:
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.

hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.

hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is
mainly for hosting HBCK2.

hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days.

## Issues:

## Membership Data:
Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (9 years ago)
There are currently 85 committers and 48 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Zheng Hu(openinx) was added to the PMC on 2019-08-05
- Reid Chan(reidchan) was added to the PMC on 2019-08-12
- Pankaj Kumar(pankajkumar) was added as committer on 2019-09-13
- Sakthi(sakthi) was added as committer on 2019-08-01
- Tak-Lon (Stephen) Wu(taklwu) was added as committer on 2019-08-06

The PMC Chair was changed on 2019-07. Misty Linville stepped back and Duo Zhang
was appointed as the new Chair. Thanks Misty for serving us as Chair in the
last two years.

## Project Activity:
Recent releases:

hbase-thirdparty-3.0.0 was released on 2019-09-25.
hbase-operator-tools-1.0.0 was released on 2019-09-24.
2.2.1 was released on 2019-09-04.
2.1.6 was released on 2019-08-30.
2.0.6 was released on 2019-08-19.

HBase 2.0.x is at the end of maintenance (EOM). 2.0.x users are encouraged to
upgrade to the the newest 2.1.x and 2.2.x releases.

HBaseConAsia 2019 was held on 2019-07-20 in Beijing, China. There are roughly
500+ attendees and more than 20 presentations. A simple report:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/fe68ed3a1c4e54821d48e77a8e69885d1709a82c00ae7b493910fa4e@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E
We also had a round table meeting on the day after the conference, this is the
meeting note:

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3d5fe9a80fa4876688d4dba96dff63de95cad8c2442873aed38f96ca@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E
There were some discussions about the relationship between HBase and Phoenix.

We revived the discussion about moving the stable pointer to 2.x

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/81b2917eba3fce2872b96526635a5ba11535c73641cb3d38271ee353@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f9ae2bf212d4d1c48eecf3d1d26edb0dd3d1d3bb8096bf6740839dbe@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E
A lot of works have been done to improve the HBCK2 tool so we think it is time
to move the stable pointer to 2.x. If no other concerns, 2.2.2 or 2.2.3 will
be the next stable version.

We discussed the protobuf version for 3.0.0 release.

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/abd60a8985a4898bae03b2c3c51d43a6b83d67c00caff82ba9ab2712@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E
We have moved to a shaded 3.x protobuf version for most code but for CECPs we
are still on 2.5.0. This is partly because hadoop is still on 2.5.0. Recently
the hadoop community also started to solve the problem, and we will try to
help them.

There was a discussion on where to place the release scripts:

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/31d44cfd165ff04bed3a74a46311af3c2e857a3a84f08ae0759f2794@<dev.hbase.apache.org>
We have several repos now and all of them need to follow the Apache protocols
to make releases. We need to find a way to make the release work easier.

## Community Health:
- Mailing list activity:
dev@hbase.apache.org:
1015 subscribers(1007 in the previous quarter)
1339 emails sent to list(1473 in the previous quarter)

user@hbase.apache.org:
2150 subscribers(2171 in the previous quarter)
282 emails sent to list(160 in the previous quarter)

- JIRA activity:
455 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-5% decrease)
350 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-28% decrease)

I think after 2.x gets more stable the numbers will keep decreasing, maybe this
is a sign that we should start the release for 3.0.0.

- GitHub activity:
377 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (41% increase)
380 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (57% increase)

We keep improving the GitHub PR integration and now GitHub PR is the suggested
way to submit and review patches. This is why these numbers increasing
dramatically.

@Ted: follow up on tweet

17 Jul 2019

Change the Apache HBase Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Misty Linville
 (misty) to the office of Vice President, Apache HBase, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
 Misty Linville from the office of Vice President, Apache HBase, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache HBase project
 has chosen by consensus to recommend Duo Zhang (zhangduo) as the
 successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Misty Linville is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
 President, Apache HBase, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Duo Zhang be and hereby is appointed to
 the office of Vice President, Apache HBase, to serve in accordance
 with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the
 Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal
 or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.

 Special Order 7B, Change the Apache HBase Project Chair, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

17 Jul 2019 [Misty Linville / Ted]

## Description:

Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects.
The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache
Spark.

hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache
Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the
project.

## Issues:
Board-only information removed from public report.

## Activity:

There have been lots of interesting discussions on the dev@ mailing list.
Highlights:
- HBase 1.2.x is at the end of maintenance (EOM). 1.2.x users are encouraged
  to upgrade to the current stable line (1.4.9) or even newer if they are
  able.
- We had more discussions of EOLing the 2.0.x line, and decided to release a
  2.0.6 release first.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/804ee14d  830ab41bdf5846f6f86d3db7f1af36f6304d82ef89d67f44@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
  We started talking about HBase 3 and we'd like to hear your thoughts.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e12dd080  5d2dc99ddb713f72e8978977e406681716059944a141fca9@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- We're looking for users who are using "Preemptive Fast Fail." If that's you,
  please weigh in.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e234283f  f115bd74d018178052886ad5494932b8070317d7b9268d86@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- We mostly wrapped up the 6+ month move to git-box.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3496568d  6cc002f74f5c3bcce46ed44b7ee9e90d7d53af2c65b6f785@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E,
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d05defa9  6237dca49783c1b615964b6b09ff90482c4873b390141488@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
  and improved the documentation for reviewers and committers
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/11ade0cc9  81913997d719c7138bbb930bf528c2d2f5c048b7d4cd4f3@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E).
- Toward modularizing HBase code for ease of maintenance and releases, we
  created new repositories for hbase-connectors, hbase-native-client,
  hbase-filesystem. (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-20934,
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c6d4717d  5569de7cf89125b253b2126d9ec87ed8a895d7cf3c46dff2@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E,
  https://github.com/apache/hbase-native-client,
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a6403bc0  4be7bf04ba90196b44f1a4cdc0364cd2e7ca1927250a8f1b@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E,
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/93fd0bd7  9cb54bc14015fa7e17ddb11e02a4b44ecaf75f916f232833@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- We improved the Downloads page by removing all references to dist.apache.org
  from it. (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-22206)
- We had several heart-felt discussions, on dev@ and private@, about the
  responsibility of the PMC in voting for release candidates, Release Manager
  burn-out, the meaning of +0 votes, whether to continue testing a RC after it
  is sunk, and other related topics. Some of those discussions are available
  to the public.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a4f8e44b  ef8ceac7faf7759c3c8e66d495ce484216978f71548b4e31@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E,
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9de91f65  ecd4290bf82c52393078ac15a8933adb67bb22719ca6744b@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E,
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8cf2f7d86  51f0975d413355641ea8ca4e6ac1204b5c4532c027f5208@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E).
  See the items below about voting.
- Anoop started a Google Group for people interested in hosting or attending
  HBase meet-ups in India
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/cfca58e6  2ceb2120808dbe62c9860bf9bdb7e3a023edfeffdcef83ed@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- Josh Elser organized and attended the first NoSQL Day on May 21 in
  Washington, DC, and wrote up a report.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a30a42f3  4cc6581aca68944551604b18b90fab5147ff69705e543081@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- A team of developers expressed interest in getting HBase running on ARM, and
  offered to help manage some testing infrastructure.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e2c1a628  491d6d659ee9ef948d3e9d760a781c2ce2d657cda1d9ab14@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)

HBaseCon Asia takes place July 20, 2019, in Beijing. The Call For Papers (CFP)
closed on June 17. (https://hbase.apache.org/hbaseconasia-2019/,
https://easychair.org/cfp/hbaseconasia-2019)

Another goal, spanning several quarters, is to solicit more non-binding votes
on release candidates, as non-binding votes are one signal of broader
community engagement. Based on several discussions, we surfaced the following
further expectations:
- Voting on release candidates is largely about well-formedness of the
  artifacts. A script exists to help determine well-formedness.
- A candidate that gets few votes can be discouraging to the release manager
  (RM).
- A +0 vote is a powerful signal to the RM that you care about a candidate but
  don't have enough information to vote decisively.
- Don't assume a single -1 means a candidate is sunk, even if it looks
  serious.
- If you find a problem, file a JIRA and try to help find root cause. Don't
  rely on the RM to own every problem.
- PMC members are expected to vote on as many release candidates as possible,
  and 1.x releases need more consistent voters. As a reminder, anyone on the
  dev@ list can test and provide feedback on a release candidate, and cast a
  non-binding vote.

Three new committers were added this quarter, and one committer joined the
PMC. More details below. Thanks to the new committers and PMC members for
agreeing to take on more responsibilities in the project.

## Health report:

We're in the middle of the summer in the northern hemisphere, but it hasn't
slowed down the conversation. Subscribers to dev@ are down a bit (-41), but
discussions are still vigorous, with 1524 emails (1064 last quarter).

The same pattern holds for users@, with 61 fewer subscribers than last
quarter, but 184 emails (115 last quarter).

We're still fixing a lot of JIRAs, and this quarter we fixed ever so slightly
more than we created! Numbers below.


## PMC changes:

- Currently 46 PMC members.
- Jan Hentschel was added to the PMC on Tue May 07 2019

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 82 committers.
- New commmitters:
   - Yi Mei was added as a committer on Wed May 22 2019
   - Wellington Chevreuil was added as a committer on Thu Jun 06 2019
   - Xiang Li was added as a committer on Mon May 13 2019

## Releases:

- 1.2.12 was released on Tue Apr 16 2019
- 1.3.4 was released on Sat May 4, 2019
- 2.1.5 was released on Wed Jun 5, 2019
- 1.3.5 was released on Sun Jun 09 2019
- 1.4.10 was released on Sun Jun 09 2019
- 2.2.0 was released on Mon Jun 10 2019
- hbase-connectors-1.0.0 was released on Thu May 02 2019
- hbase-filesystem-1.0.0-alpha1 was released on Mon Jun 10 2019

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@hbase.apache.org:
    - 1007 subscribers (down -41 in the last 3 months):
    - 1524 emails sent to list (1064 in previous quarter)

 - user@hbase.apache.org:
    - 2171 subscribers (down -61 in the last 3 months):
    - 184 emails sent to list (117 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

 - 484 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months  (down from 494 last quarter)
 - 489 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months  (up from 436 last
   quarter)

17 Apr 2019 [Misty Linville / Craig]

## Description:

Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

## Issues:
Board-only information removed from public report.

## Activity:

There have been lots of interesting discussions on the dev@ mailing list.
Highlights:
- We have nearly all the infrastructure ready to complete the move to Gitbox.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3496568d  6cc002f74f5c3bcce46ed44b7ee9e90d7d53af2c65b6f785@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- An interesting discussion occurred about the frequency of releases in the
  2.1.x line
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/222aacbf7  4d9788287ef5606fe66a06c1a3aa31a299a469d124a5ee0@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E).
  The discussion included a sub-discussion about what it will take to separate
  the hbck took from the main project, and another sub-discussion about
  time-based releases and release cadence in general. It's worth a read.
- A conversation is underway about getting the branch-2 line ready for the
  "stable" pointer.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/81b2917e  ba3fce2872b96526635a5ba11535c73641cb3d38271ee353@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- We asked ourselves what our greatest friction point is when attracting new
  contributors. We'd love for you to weigh in.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/887a253c  cce44b51e4cfc57276545fcea123fa780a73ffc9fa279cd2@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- Sean Busbey, the release manager for 1.2, proposes that 1.2.12 (currently a
  release candidate) be the last release in the 1.2 line.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3cf19458  b739a612fbe1f72d17c14124ff536b0cb8678a63d80cf019@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)

Planning is underway for the next HBaseCon Asia! Contact Duo Zhang
<zhangduo@apache.org> to get involved.

The HBase project is working toward the goal of more frequent minor releases
and fewer unprompted maintenance releases. In total this quarter, HBase had 7
releases over this quarter, across 3 release lines, and hbase-thirdparty had 1
release.

Another goal, spanning several quarters, is to solicit more non-binding votes
on release candidates, as non-binding votes are one signal of broader
community engagement.
- HBase 2.1.3 RC1 had 40% non-binding votes
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/baef7847  6204a476b45f7e273b006f19d057c6d9123d8a34178539a9@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- We voted on and failed several release candidates this quarter. We had less
  participation from non-binding voters this quarter. As a reminder, anyone on
  the dev@ list can test and provide feedback on a release candidate, and cast
  a non-binding vote.

One new committer was added this quarter, and one committer joined the PMC.
More details below. Thanks to the new committers and PMC members for agreeing
to take on more responsibilities in the project.

## Health report:

We've bounced back from the holiday dip in activity. Specifically, we have
fixed a lot of JIRA issues this quarter!

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 45 PMC members.
 - Peter Somogyi was added to the PMC on Mon Jan 21 2019.

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 79 committers.
 - Xu Cang was added as a committer on Fri Feb 01 2019

## Releases:

- 2.0.4 was released on Thu Jan 3 2019
- 2.1.2 was released on Tue Jan 8 2019
- 1.2.10 was released on Wed Jan 16 2019
- 2.1.3 was released on Wed Feb 13 2019
- 1.2.11 was released on Sun Feb 24 2019
- 2.0.5 was released on Sun Mar 24 2019
- 2.1.4 was released on Mon Mar 25 2019
- hbase-thirdparty 2.2.0 was released on Tue Apr 2, 2019

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@hbase.apache.org:
    - 1051 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
    - 1115 emails sent to list (997 in previous quarter)

 - user@hbase.apache.org:
    - 2236 subscribers (down -17 in the last 3 months):
    - 117 emails sent to list (119 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

 - 494 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months  (down from 405 last quarter)
 - 436 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months  (down from 332 last
   quarter)

16 Jan 2019 [Misty Linville / Bertrand]

## Description:

Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

## Issues:

## Activity:

There have been lots of interesting discussions on the dev@ mailing list.
Highlights:
- Discussion is ongoing about plans to move to Gitbox and ways the project can
  accommodate users who prefer to contribute using Github.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3496568d  6cc002f74f5c3bcce46ed44b7ee9e90d7d53af2c65b6f785@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- An interesting discussion occurred about the frequency of releases in the
  2.1.x line
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/222aacbf7  4d9788287ef5606fe66a06c1a3aa31a299a469d124a5ee0@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E).
  The discussion included a sub-discussion about what it will take to separate
  the hbck took from the main project, and another sub-discussion about
  time-based releases and release cadence in general. It's worth a read.
- A proposal to retire the 1.3 line resulted in Francis Liu stepping in to be
  the release manage for the line, because his team relies on that branch.
  Francis is aiming for a quarterly release cadence. In the same discussion,
  Andrew Purtell and Sean Busbey discuss how they have been managing 1.2 and
  1.4 lines, and plans for the 1.5 line.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/dd655a21  cb5eb23a983648d71f5d08ca567b110ab9128a70f06eddcc@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- Another discussion of 1.x release cadences was started by Andrew Purtell,
  including specific plans for the 1.5 branch.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e18266c8  aa1e1406f3e652a3a1ee52d498aaad506537621cc754499b@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- Another interesting discussion resulted in improved understanding and
  documentation of the process for editing and rebuilding pages on the HBase
  website that don't result from building the documentation.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/18010d08  97752db7f9d91f4f75694831a7ed9db28739ce4a91e546e4@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- Speaking of 1.5, the first snapshot is available for testing.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/bbf7b479  20da532535bb8ce493df3265fd91211b227f681b2cc3c3a2@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)

Josh Elser started a discussion on the PMC list about the definition of and
parameters for an HBaseCon event, who can run one, and other guidelines,
informed by his work organizing HBaseCon US 2018. He's working on some
project-facing documentation, which promises to be helpful for future
organizers of HBase-related events worldwide.

The HBase project is working toward the goal of more frequent minor releases
and fewer unprompted maintenance releases. In total this quarter, HBase had 8
releases over this quarter, across 5 release lines.

Another goal, spanning several quarters, is to solicit more non-binding votes
on release candidates, as non-binding votes are one signal of broader
community engagement. Here are a few examples:
- HBase 1.3.3 RC0 had 40% non-binding votes
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9e3a472e  142faa9a48ed5ab0e1e1baaaeb9ddfe7a9fdcfa547c2cd20@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- HBase 1.4.8 RC0 had 50% non-binding votes
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/2f8ad79f  6da4d2ac223a61b82aeb29a2322479257f271da90f0687e0@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)
- HBase 2.1.1 RC0 also had 50% non-binding votes
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f9ccc377  dbeac4b3a7a0cddcef0cd7369675f5b1cc570b6c19a52864@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)

As a reminder, anyone on the dev@ list can test and provide feedback on a
release candidate, and cast a non-binding vote.

Lars Hofhansl is in the process of organizing a bay-area HBase developer
meet-up at Salesforce. If you're interested, participate in the thread.
(https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e814054e8d8ad1c5ebb30b9c50d97b5b8b5edada121f184fdf045e3d@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E)

Two new committers were added this quarter, and two committers joined the PMC.
More details below. Thanks to the new committers and PMC members for agreeing
to take on more responsibilities in the project.

## Health report:

Despite a slow holiday quarter, the HBase project shows a high level of
engagement, as seen through release cadence, deep and meaningful discussion on
mailing lists, discussion and documentation of processes, and non-binding
votes in the project.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 44 PMC members.
 - Zach York was added to the PMC on November 15, 2018.
 - Allan Yang was added to the PMC on Mon Nov 26 2018.

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 78 committers.
 - Balazs Meszaros was added as a committer on October 11, 2018.
 - Jingyun Tian was added as a committer on Mon Nov 12 2018.

## Releases:

 - 1.2.8 was released on Fri Oct 19 2018.
 - 1.2.9 was released on Mon Nov 26 2018.
 - 1.4.8 was released on Sun Oct 07 2018.
 - 2.0.3 was released on Sat Dec 01 2018.
 - 2.1.1 was released on Tue Oct 30 2018.
 - 1.3.3 was released on Thu Dec 20 2018.
 - 1.4.9 was released on Thu Dec 13 2018.
 - 2.0.4 was released on Wed Jan 02 2019.

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@hbase.apache.org:
    - 1060 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months):
    - 997 emails sent to list (1075 in previous quarter)

 - user@hbase.apache.org:
    - 2254 subscribers (down -11 in the last 3 months):
    - 119 emails sent to list (260 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

 - 405 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months  (down from 413 last quarter)
 - 322 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months  (down from 428 last
   quarter)

17 Oct 2018 [Misty Linville / Shane]

Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION

RELEASES

- 2.1.0 was released on Tue Jul 17 2018
- 1.4.6 was released on Sun Jul 29 2018
- 2.0.2 was released on Sat Sep 01 2018
- 1.4.7 was released on Sun Sep 02 2018
- 1.2.7 was released on Sat Sep 15 2018


ACTIVITY

The second annual HBaseCon Asia was held in Beijing, China, on Aug. 17, 2018. The event was hosted by Alibaba, sponsored by Didi, Huawei, and Xiaomi. Admission was free to attendees, and a live stream allowed worldwide participation. In total, 494 individuals attended locally and the livestream accumulated 14796 views. Thanks to Yu Li and all organizers for coordinating the event. [Event summary](http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hbase-user/201808.mbox/) [Photos, videos, slides](http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hbase-user/201808.mbox/)

A developer meet-up occurred in conjunction with HBaseCon Asia on August 18, 2018. Around 30 people attended. [Michael Stack took notes](http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hbase-dev/201808.mbox/browser). Key discussion points included testing, proposals for using Github in our workflow, a discussion about user experienc for new HBase users, and more.

Three more developer meet-ups occurred in September in China:

- September 1 in HangZhou
- September 8 in ShangHai
- September 15 in ShenZhen

More than 200 people attended locally and hundreds participated via livestreams.
[Details and recordings](https://s.apache.org/MdSV) are available (in Chinese).

In total, HBase had 5 releases over this quarter, across 4 release lines.

Toshihiro Suzuki was added as a committer on Wed Aug 01 2018.

Zach York joined the PMC on October 5, 2018 (out of this reporting period).

Stay tuned for more committer and PMC member announcements next month, as they just missed the report cut-off date!

Thanks to the new committers and PMC members for agreeing to take on more responsibilities in the project.

STATS

The dev@ mailing list saw a negligible decline in subscribers and nearly identical traffic as the last quarter.

The user@ mailing list lost 23 subscribers along with a negligible increase in traffic over the last quarter.

76 committers (+1 from last quarter)
42 PMC members (+0 from last quarter)
413 JIRA tickets created (down from 497 last quarter)
343 JIRA tickets closed/resolved (down from 428 last quarter)

18 Jul 2018 [Misty Stanley-Jones / Isabel]

Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows
with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware.

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION

RELEASES

HBase 1.4.4 was released on April 30 2018.

HBase 2.0.0 was released on April 30 2018.

HBASE 1.2.6.1 was released on June 12 2018.

HBase 1.3.2.1 was released on June 13 2018.

HBase 2.0.1 was released on June 20 2018.

HBase 1.4.5 was released on June 20, 2018.

The "stable" pointer for downstream users is now HBase 1.2.6.1.


ACTIVITY

HBaseCon US took place at Joseph McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA, on
June 18, 2018, simultaneous with PhoenixCon 2018. There were 180 attendees
including 27 women. 120 of these attendees were there specifically for
HBaseCon. Some relevant quotes from the post-event feedback:
- "I appreciate all talks, especially those showing unexpected use-cases or
 developments in the community."
- "20 minute sessions are great since folks from the community can share short
 stories of their experience using HBase."
- "Focus on technical context was refreshing" Thanks again to Josh Elser and
 his team at Hortonworks for organizing and facilitating HBaseCon.

An HBase meet-up took place in Beijing on June 6th in preparation for HBaseCon
Asia 2018. Around 100 people attended in person, and the event was
live-streamed to over 10,000 audience members. Several PMC members were in
attendance. Three remote presenters recorded videos to be shown at the event.

The second annual HBaseCon Asia is being held in Beijing, China, on Aug. 17,
2018. The event will be hosted by Alibaba, sponsored by Didi, Huawei, and
Xiaomi. Admission will be free to attendees. The call for papers closed June
30, and resulted in 28 submissions, currently under review. Thanks to Yu Li
for coordinating the event.

HBase 2.0 was released on May 4, 2018, followed up HBase 2.0.1 on June 20. The
HBase 2.0.x line represents the work of over four years and includes new
features, improvements, and bug fixes encompassing 4623 JIRAs. Some of the new
features include the compacting memstore, a rewrite of the assignment manager,
quotas, big performance improvements to the bucket cache, lots of stability
improvements, and much better test coverage. Thanks to Michael Stack for
shepherding this release into the world.

CVE-2018-8025 was addressed by releasing HBase 1.2.6.1, 1.3.2.1, 1.4.5, and
2.0.1. For more information about this vulnerability, see
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a919e38f587c714c386a01d40fc8f45bd4219a65aaf2dc0bb4eccc96@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E.
To report an HBase vulnerability, send an email to private@hbase.apache.org so
that we can investigate and address the vulnerability in a responsible way.

In total, HBase had 6 releases over this quarter.

Francis Liu agreed to step up as a PMC member on Tue Apr 10 2018.

Two contributors became committers during this reporting period:
- Guangxu Cheng was added as a committer on Thu May 31 2018
- Reid Chan was added as a committer on Mon Jun 25 2018

Thanks to the new committers and PMC members for agreeing to take on more
responsibilities in the project.

STATS

The dev@ mailing list saw a slight increase in subscribers over the last
quarter, and a 35% decrease in traffic, consistent with the summer quarter.

The user@ mailing list saw a a slight decline in subscribers, and a 13%
decrease in traffic, consistent with the summer quarter.

75 committers (+2 from last quarter) 42 PMC members (+1 from last quarter) 497
JIRA tickets created (down from 664 last quarter) 428 JIRA tickets
closed/resolved (down from 651 last quarter)

18 Apr 2018 [Misty Stanley-Jones / Brett]

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

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION

RELEASES

HBase 1.4.1 was released on Thu Feb 01 2018.

HBase 1.4.2 was released on Tue Feb 27 2018.

HBase 2.0.0-beta-2 was released on Tue Mar 06 2018.

hbase-thirdparty 2.1.0 was released on Sat Mar 23 2018.

HBase 1.3.2 was released on Wed Mar 28 2018.

HBase 1.4.3 was released on Thu Mar 29 2018.


ACTIVITY

HBaseCon US has been announced and will take place at Joseph McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA, on June 18, 2018. Details can be found at https://hbase.apache.org/hbasecon-2018/, and session proposals are currently being solicited. Thanks to Josh Elser for heading up organization of this event.

In addition, the second annual HBaseCon Asia is being held in Beijing, China, on Aug. 17, 2018. The event will be sponsored by Alibaba, Huawei, and Xiaomi. Admission will be free to attendees. Thanks to Yu Li for coordinating the event.

Development toward a HBase 2.0.0 release is going well, with the second beta released in early March. Thanks to Michael Stack for driving the 2.0.0 effort. Aside from the code itself, there has been a strong focus on stability and performance improvements, as well as documentation for new features and improvements.

Work on the HBase 1.4.x line is going well, with the releases of 1.4.1, 1.4.2, and 1.4.3 this quarter.

The 1.3.x line is also seeing progress, with the 1.3.2 release.

Three committers agreed to step up as PMC members during this reporting period:

- Ashish Singhi was added to the PMC on Sun Feb 25 2018
- Mike Drob was added to the PMC on Fri Feb 23 2018
- Guanghao Zhang was added to the PMC on Sun Feb 25 2018

Two contributors became committers during this reporting period:

- Peter Somogyi was added as a committer on Wed Feb 21 2018
- Zach York was added as a committer on Thu Mar 01 2018

Thanks to the new committers and PMC members for agreeing to take on more responsibilities in the project.

STATS

The dev@ mailing list saw a slight decline in subscribers over the last quarter, and a 4% decrease in traffic.

The user@ mailing list saw a a slight decline in subscribers as well, but a 10% increase in traffic.

73 committers (+3 from last quarter)
41 PMC members (+2 from last quarter)
664 JIRA tickets created (down from 755 last quarter)
651 JIRA tickets closed/resolved (down from 730 last quarter)

17 Jan 2018 [Misty Stanley-Jones / Phil]

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

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION

None at this time.

RELEASES

HBase had three releases during this reporting period, including one alpha
release working toward 2.0.0.

- HBase 1.1.13 was released on Sun Dec 10 2017. This was the final release in
 the 1.1 branch. Thanks to Nick Dimiduk for managing releases on this branch
 for us.
- HBase 1.4.0 was released on Sun Dec 17 2017. This is the first release of
 our new 1.4 code line, the latest in the 1.x series of minor releases. HBase
 1.4.0 incorporates 660 bug fixes and improvements and several new features.
 See the 1.4.0 release announcement in the archives of our dev list for more
 details. We expect to make releases from this line on roughly a monthly
 cadence.
- HBase 2.0.0-alpha-4 was released on Mon Nov 06 2017.

In addition, hbase-thirdparty had one release.

- hbase-thrirdparty-2.0.0 was released on Mon Dec 25 2017

ACTIVITY

Development toward a HBase 2.0.0 release is going well, with the fourth alpha
released in November and the first beta around the corner. A release candidate
went up for vote for that beta, but the vote did not pass due to stability
concerns, and we are continuing work to stabilize before the first beta.
Thanks to Michael Stack for driving the 2.0.0 effort. Work toward the Beta has
continued to engage lots of discussions on the dev@ mailing list and to
increase interest in the project overall.

Work on the HBase 1.4.x line is going well, and the HBase 1.1.x line is now at
an end.

The HBase project has added five new committers during this reporting period,
with a total of 71 committers.

- Lars Francke was added as a committer on October 16.
- Rahul Gidwani and Jan Hentschel were added as committers on October 25.
- Zheng Hu was added as a committer on October 21.
- Yi Liang was added as a committer on December 20.

Thanks to PMC members, committers, and active community members for a
successful 2017 for the HBase project!

STATS

The dev@ mailing list saw a slight decrease in membership, but a marked
increase in activity. This was due to several substantial discussions about
project health, work on the upcoming 2.0.0 Beta, and discussion of new
features and design changes.

The user@ mailing list saw a slight decrease in membership and a small
decrease in the number of discussions. This is probably due to holidays.

The builds@ mailing list saw a decrease in traffic, due to significant work on
stabilizing build and test infrastructure over the past quarter.

71 committers 38 PMC members 755 JIRA tickets created 730 JIRA tickets
closed/resolved

18 Oct 2017 [Misty Stanley-Jones / Phil]

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

hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to
mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem.

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION

None at this time.

RELEASES

HBase had three releases during this reporting period, including two alpha
releases working toward 2.0.0.

- HBase 1.1.12 was released on August 20.
- HBase 2.0.0-alpha-2 was released on August 20 and HBase 2.0.0-alpha-3 was
released on September 17.

In addition, hbase-thirdparty had two releases.

- hbase-thirdparty-1.0.0 was released on July 4.
- hbase-thirdparty-1.0.1 was released on August 27

ACTIVITY

Development toward a HBase 2.0.0 release is going well, with the third alpha
released in September, a fourth alpha coming soon, and the first beta release
around the corner. There are lots of design-focused discussions on the dev@
mailing list. As momentum builds, it is increasing overall project engagement.

HBaseCon Asia was held on August 4, and was a big success. A meet-up was held
the next day at the Huawei offices. Michael Stack wrote up a summary of both
events, including photos: https://s.apache.org/mjx8

The HBase project has added two new PMC members and three new committers
during this reporting period. Chunhui Shen joined the PMC on July 3, and
Chia-Ping Tsai joined the PMC on September 28. Vikas Vishwakarma and Abhishek
Singh Chouhan became committers on July 24, and Mike Drob became a committer
on July 31.

Misty Stanley-Jones replaced Andrew Purtell as Vice President on September 18.

STATS

The dev@ mailing list saw a slight increase in membership, but a marked
increase in activity. This was due to several substantial discussions about
project health, as well as increased participation in release candidate votes
and discussion of new features and design changes.

The user@ mailing list saw a slight decrease in membership at the same time as
a significant increase in the number of discussions.

The builds@ mailing list saw a 50%+ increase in traffic, due to changes in the
testing infrastructure.

The JIRA open/close rate is significantly different from the last report.
Opened JIRAs are up 36%, and closed JIRAs are up 7%.

66 committers 38 PMC members 612 JIRA tickets created 593 JIRA tickets
closed/resolved

20 Sep 2017

Change the Apache HBase Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Andrew Purtell to
 the office of Vice President, Apache HBase, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
 Andrew Purtell from the office of Vice President, Apache HBase, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache HBase project
 has chosen by vote to recommend Misty Stanley-Jones as the successor
 to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Andrew Purtell is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
 President, Apache HBase, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Misty Stanley-Jones be and hereby is
 appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache HBase, to serve in
 accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors
 and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement,
 removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.

 Special Order 7B, Change the Apache HBase Project Chair, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

19 Jul 2017 [Andrew Purtell / Shane]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION

None at this time.

RELEASES

Over the last reporting interval we made a total of four releases - two
releases from the 1.1.x code line, and one release from each of our other
1.x code lines: 1.1.10 was released on April 25, 2017, shepherded by
branch RM Nick Dimiduk. 1.3.1 was released on April 20, 2017, with the
guidance of branch RM Mikhail Antonov. 1.2.6 was released on June 03, 2017
thanks to branch RM Sean Busbey. 1.1.11 was released on June 18, 2017,
also managed by branch RM Nick Dimiduk.

We produced the first alpha release of our new code line, 2.x.
2.0.0-alpha-1 was released on June 09, 2017 under the supervision of
co-RMs Michael Stack and Stephen Yuan Jiang.

Andrew Purtell volunteered to branch for and stabilize a new 1.x code
line - 1.4.x - with the release of 1.4.0 tentatively planned two months'
time from now.

ACTIVITY

I am pleased to report we have added two members to our PMC in this
reporting period: Devaraj Das joined us on June 29, 2017, and Chunhui
Shen joined us on Jul 3, 2017. We now have 37 PMC members.

We also brought three new committers on board the project: Allan Yang
on June 07 2017, Ashu Pachauri on June 14, 2017, and Huaxiang Sun on
June 19, 2017. We now have 63 committers.

In terms of public events, we are happy to report that HBaseCon West was a
success, with around 200 attendees in Mountain View, California. HBaseCon
Asia is scheduled to take place in Shenzhen, China on August 4, 2017, and
preparations are well underway.

STATS

Our dev@ mailing list saw a small increase in membership over this
reporting period while the user@ list saw a decline. There is a small
downward trend on user@ list subscriptions.

The JIRA open/close ratio is close to that reported last time. (Opened
-2%, closed +7%).

63 committers
37 PMC
1090 subscribers to the dev list (up 6 in the last 3 months)
2333 subscribers to the user list (down 16 in the last 3 months)
463 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
466 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

19 Apr 2017 [Andrew Purtell / Bertrand]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION

None at this time.

RELEASES

We have decided to declare our 0.94 and 0.98 code lines end-of-lifed
and will be communicating this to our user communites soon. Earlier
we already declared our 1.0 code line as EOL, so the earliest
supported code line is now 1.1.

1.1.9 was released on February 16, 2017, managed by branch RM Nick
Dimiduk.

1.2.5 was released on March 23, 2017, managed by branch RM Sean Busbey.

1.3.0 was released on Jan 15, 2017, managed by branch RM Mikhail
Antonov.

ACTIVITY

I am pleased to report we have added three members to our PMC in this
reporting period: Jing Chen (Jerry) He on March 15, 2017; Josh Elser
also on March 15, 2017; and Yu Li on April 10, 2017. We now have 35 PMC
members.

We also brought three new committers on board the project: Chia-Ping
Tsai on March 15, 2017; Eshcar Hillel on March 16, 2017; and Anastasia
Braginsky on March 22, 2017. We now have 60 committers.

We have updated our code of conduct page[1] to include a new diversity
tatement.

HBaseCon West 2017 will be held at Monday, June 12, 2017 from 8:00 AM
to 6:30 PM PDT at the Google Crittenden Campus in Mountain View, CA,
USA.[2]

HBasecon Asia 2017 will be held at August 4, 2017 at the Huawei campus
in Bantian, Long Gang District, Shenzhen, China. Details TBD.

STATS

Our dev@ mailing list saw a small increase in membership over this
reporting period while the user@ list had a smaller decline.

The JIRA open/close ratio is close to that reported last time.
Overall the velocity is lower, by about 28% (opens) / 16% (closed).

60 committers
35 PMC
1084 subscribers to the dev list (up 8 in the last 3 months)
2349 subscribers to the user list (down 4 in the last 3 months)
459 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
430 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

1. https://hbase.apache.org/coc.html
2. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hbasecon-west-2017-tickets-33101238696

18 Jan 2017 [Andrew Purtell / Isabel]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD'S ATTENTION

None at this time.

RELEASES

We made two releases from our 0.98 code line under the supervision
of branch RM Andrew Purtell: 0.98.23 was released on October 22,
2016 and 0.98.24 was released on January 4, 2017. 0.98.24 is expected
to be the last regular release from this code line. Andrew Purtell
resigned his informal role as long term maintainer and RM for the
0.98 branch a few days ago.

We made two releases from our 1.1 code line under the supervision of
branch RM Nick Dimiduk: 1.1.7 was released on October 22, 2016 and
1.1.8 was released on December 15, 2016.

We made one release from our 1.2 code line under the supervision of
branch RM Sean Busbey: 1.2.4 was released on November 6, 2016.

Voting on the first release from our 1.3 code line, 1.3.0, under the
supervision of branch RM Mikhail Antonov, has almost completed and
looks like it will carry.

ACTIVITY

It is my pleasure to report Stephen Yuan Jiang was added to the PMC
on October 13, 2016; and four committers were added since our last
report: Lijin Bin joined us on November 17, 2016, Phil Yang joined
us on November 26, 2016, Josh Elser joined us on December 10, 2016,
and Guanghao Zhang joined us on December 19, 2016.

STATS

Mailing list memberships all saw a small increase since our last
report.

The JIRA open/close rate and ratio is close to that reported last
time.

57 committers
32 PMC
1078 subscribers to the dev list (up 9 in the last 3 months)
2355 subscribers to the user list (up 1 in the last 3 months)
634 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
514 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

19 Oct 2016 [Andrew Purtell / Sam]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION

None at this time.

RELEASES

We made two releases from our 0.98 code line under the supervision
of branch RM Andrew Purtell: 0.98.21 was released on August 15, 2016.
0.98.22 was released on September 9, 2016.

We made one release from our 1.1 code line under the supervision of
branch RM Nick Dimiduk: 1.1.6 was released on September 4, 2016.

We made two releases from our 1.2 code line under the supervision of
branch RM Sean Busbey: 1.2.2 was released on July 10, 2016. 1.2.3 was
released on September 11, 2016.

Our upcoming 1.3 code line is in prerelease under the supervision
of branch RM Mikhail Antonov, now taking on production-like workloads
to shake out the handful of remaining issues.

Recently the community updated plans for branching for the next major
code line, 2.0. Co-RMs Matteo Bertozzi and Stephen Yuan Jiang will
supervise. (Because of his volunteerism in this regard, discussion is
underway to add Stephen Yuan Jiang to the PMC.) In broad strokes the
plan is to branch and produce an alpha quality preview some time in
November of 2016, then stabilize toward beta quality by the end of this
calendar year.

ACTIVITY

It is my pleasure to report the project added four new PMC during
this reporting period. Dima Spivak was added to the PMC on August 30,
2016. Duo Zhang joined us on September 5, 2016. Misty Stanley-Jones
joined us on September 6, 2016. Stephen Yuan Jiang joined us on
October 14, 2016.

Dima Spivak was granted committer and PMC status simultaneously,
increasing the ranks of our committers by one, to 53.

We had enough interest in HBaseCon, the yearly conference for the
HBase community that took place earlier this year in May, that the
Program Committee had to turn away quality talk proposals. Thanks to
generous contribution of hosting space and logistics from Google and
Bloomberg we found a home for this overflow in an additional East
Coast edition[1] which took place last month and was well attended
by members of our user and developer communities. The organizers
of the HBase-NYC meetup group report that their membership went
from ~600 pre-event to ~850 post, showing a good increase in local
community interest.

STATS

Mailing list membership has been steady.

The JIRA open/close rate and ratio is very close to that reported
last time.

53 committers
31 PMC
1066 subscribers to the dev list (up 3 in the last 3 months)
2355 subscribers to the user list (up 5 in the last 3 months)
592 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
457 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

1. http://www.meetup.com/HBase-NYC/events/233024937/

20 Jul 2016 [Andrew Purtell / Marvin]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION

None at this time.

RELEASES

Despite my personal concerns about available community bandwidth for
maintaining several code lines, we are holding steady with three
released code lines (0.98, 1.1, and 1.2) plus development activity on
the next minor increment (1.3), the parent of the 1.x release series
(branch-1) and the project trunk (master, aka 2.0). We have one
committer allocated as release manager for each code line to
supervise (except branch-1). Committers are largely maintaining the
discipline of committing changes first to master then back through all
active branches according to our documented source and binary change
compatibility policy. An exception is 0.98. For this "long term
stable" code line the branch RM has volunteered responsibility for
porting back all desired changes committed to later code lines.

We made two releases from our 0.98 code line: 0.98.19 was released
on April 28, 2016; and 0.98.20 was released on June 12, 2016.

We made one release from our 1.1 code line: 1.1.5 was released on
May 12, 2016.

We made one release from our 1.2 code line: 1.2.1 was released on
April 5, 2016.

Work to complete the first release from our 1.3 code line is ongoing
and should be completed soon. The 1.3 code line will be managed by
our newest PMC member, Mikhail Antonov. Once 1.3.0 is released I
expect we will have a discussion on dropping active maintenance of an
older code line to compensate.

ACTIVITY

Mikhail Antonov was added to the PMC on May 23, 2016.

We added two committers over this reporting interval. Apekshit (Appy)
Sharma joined us on June 3, 2016 and Jingcheng Du joined us on
June 16, 2016.

HBaseCon, the yearly conference for the HBase community, took place
on Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at The Village on Market Street in San
Francisco, and was attended by several hundred members of our user
and developer communities.

STATS

We have seen another uptick in subscribers to our user list.

The flux of JIRA tickets is similar to the last reporting period.

52 committers
28 PMC
1064 subscribers to the dev list (down 1 in the last 3 months)
2356 subscribers to the user list (up 20 in the last 3 months)
587 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
474 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

20 Apr 2016 [Andrew Purtell / Mark]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION

None at this time.

RELEASES

We made two releases from our 0.98 code line: 0.98.17 was released on
January 21 2016 and 0.98.18 was released on March 25 2016.

We made one release from our 1.0 code line, expected to be the last
one: 1.0.3 was released on January 27 2016.

We made two releases from our 1.1 code line: 1.1.3 was released on
January 24 2016 and 1.1.4 was released on March 26 2016.

We made the first release from our new 1.2 code line: 1.2.0 was
released on February 21 2016.

ACTIVITY

The last PMC addition was Sean Busbey (busbey) on March 24, 2015.

We added three committers in this reporting period. Yu Li was added
on March 16 2016. Francis Liu was added on March 21 2016. Ashish
Singhi was added on March 29 2016.

HBaseCon, the yearly conference for the HBase community, will happen
again in 2016, and has been scheduled for Tuesday May 24 2016 at The
Village on Market St. in San Francisco.

STATS

We have seen a notable increase in subscriptions to our user
mailing list.

50 committers
27 PMC
1059 subscribers to the dev list (no change in the last 3 months)
2327 subscribers to the user list (up 23 in the last 3 months)
514 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
374 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

20 Jan 2016 [Andrew Purtell / Chris]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION

None at this time.

RELEASES

0.98.15 was released on Fri Oct 09 2015

0.98.16 was released on Mon Nov 16 2015

0.98.16.1 was released on Thu Nov 26 2015

ACTIVITY

No new PMC members added in the past three months.

Last PMC addition was Sean Busbey on March 25, 2015.

Heng Chen (chenheng) was added as a committer on Fri Nov 13 2015

HBaseCon, the yearly conference for the HBase community, will happen
again in 2016, and has been scheduled for Tuesday May 24, 2016 at The
Village on Market St. in San Francisco.

Our trademark registration application 86566462 for "HBASE" was accepted
by the USPTO for publishing for public objection. If there are no
objections our formal registration will issue in a couple of months. If
there are any unlikely objections Shane has already indicated he will
work with Apache counsel to address them.

STATS

47 committers
27 PMC
1054 subscribers to the dev list (down 11 in the last 3 months)
2303 subscribers to the user list (up 5 in the last 3 months)
500 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
421 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

21 Oct 2015 [Andrew Purtell / David]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION

None at this time.

RELEASES

- 0.98.14 was released on August 29, 2015
- 1.0.2 was released on August 31, 2015
- 1.1.2 was released on September 01, 2015

ACTIVITY

No new PMC members added in the past three months.

Last PMC addition was Sean Busbey on March 25, 2015.

As new PMC, Sean Busbey made a significant impact by evaluating our
compliance with Foundation release policies, found deviations had
accumulated over time, and lead development efforts to fix them. Once
the blockers had been addressed we resumed releases. The bulk of the
work was done on HBASE-14085.

Stephen Yuan Jiang was added as a committer on August 23, 2015.

Andrew Purtell presented at OSCON on July 23, 2015. [1]

We held a developer workshop at the Palo Alto offices of Cloudera on
August 26, 2015 that was well attended. [2]

Nick Dimiduk presented at Apache Big Data EU on September 28,
2015. [3]

We held an un-conference style meetup at Cloudera NYC on September
29, 2015. [4]

We have resumed community sponsored user group meetups. The next
one is scheduled for October 8, 2015. [5]

STATS

46 committers
27 PMC
1070 subscribers to the dev list (up 35 in the last 3 months)
2296 subscribers to the user list (up 34 in the last 3 months)
509 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
468 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

[1] http://s.apache.org/yWM
[2] http://s.apache.org/yW2
[3] http://s.apache.org/Mjj
[4] http://s.apache.org/Q7t
[5] http://s.apache.org/dMQ

15 Jul 2015 [Andrew Purtell / Brett]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION

We are considering a three month temporary ban, or some form of
moderation, for a corrosive participant on our user@ and dev@ mailing
lists, and are likely to achieve consensus on one of those options.
Since the public discussion started I have received several private
mails confirming the negative impact this individual is having on our
community, in the words of one: “[He] kept me quiet for months on the
mailing lists and JIRAs for fear of saying something wrong and getting
called out for it.”
Discussion threads:
 - Latest incident takes place in this thread: http://s.apache.org/Eye
 - Discussion (June): http://s.apache.org/0Ox
 - Discussion (July): http://s.apache.org/sai

RELEASES

 - 0.98.12 was released on Apr 17 2015
 - 1.0.1 was released on Apr 27 2015
 - 1.1.0 was released on May 14 2015
 - 1.0.1.1 was released on May 21 2015
 - 1.1.0.1 was released on May 21 2015
 - 0.98.12.1 was released on Thu May 21 2015
 - 0.98.13 was released on Jun 18 2015
 - 1.1.1 was released on Jun 29 2015.

ACTIVITY

No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.

Mikhail Antonov was added as a committer on Jun 10 2015.

Esteban Gutierrez was added as a committer on Jun 22 2015.

April 30th, 2015 HBase user meetup at MachineZone. [1]

May 7th, 2015 HBaseCon 2015 took place in San Francisco. [2]

New RM Nick Dimiduk made two successful 1.1.x releases.

Sean Busbey volunteered to RM for the upcoming 1.2.x series of
releases.

Andrew Purtell will be presenting on Apache HBase at OSCON on
July 23, 2015. [3]

We are working on an HBase ecosystem track for ApacheCON EU:
Core.

We have started an outreach effort to get users writing about
their use cases and experiences with our software on our blog.
The first installation in the series was recently posted. [4]

STATS

45 committers
27 PMC
1030 subscribers to the dev list (up 4 in the last 3 months)
2265 subscribers to the user list (up 12 in the last 3 months)
623 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
841 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

1. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/221713562/
2. http://www.hbasecon.com/
3. http://s.apache.org/yWM
4. http://s.apache.org/sEV

22 Apr 2015 [Andrew Purtell / David]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION

None

RELEASES

0.94.27   03/25/2015

0.98.10   02/05/2015
0.98.10.1 02/13/2015 -- Patch release for HBASE-12979
0.98.11   03/09/2015

1.0.0     02/21/2015

NEW COMMITTERS

Srikanth Srungarapu (ssrungarapu) -- Cloudera
Jing Chen (Jerry) He (jerryjch) -- IBM

NEW PMC

Sean Busbey (busbey) -- Cloudera

PMC CHANGES

We rotated our Chair from Michael Stack (stack) to Andrew Purtell
 (apurtell)

COMMUNITY

HBaseCon 2015 happens in San Francisco May 7th, 2015 [1]

We had the following HBase Meetups:

January 15th, 2015 HBase+Phoenix developer meetup @ Salesforce in San
 Francisco [2]

January 15th, 2015 HBase Meetup @ AppDynamics in San Francisco [3]

February 27th, 2015 HBase Strata+Hadoop World meetup @ Hortonworks in
 Santa Clara [4]

STATS

43 committers
27 PMC
1024 subscribers to the dev list (Was 1011 at last report)
2253 subscribers to the user list (Was 2218 at last report)

1. http://www.hbasecon.com/
2. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/219648544/
3. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/218744798/
4. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/219260093/

@David: Please don't include company names in reports

18 Mar 2015

Change the Apache HBase Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Michael
 Stack to the office of Vice President, Apache HBase, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
 of Michael Stack from the office of Vice President, Apache HBase,
 and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache HBase
 project has chosen by vote to recommend Andrew Purtell as the
 successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Michael Stack is
 relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of
 the office of Vice President, Apache HBase, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Andrew Purtell be and hereby is
 appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache HBase, to
 serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
 Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
 death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
 until a successor is appointed.

 Special Order 7H, Change the Apache HBase Project Chair, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

18 Feb 2015 [Michael Stack / Doug]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION

WanDisco’s “Non-Stop HBase” product is in violation of
our Apache trademark. One of our PMC members works
for WanDisco and is actively working on getting this
infringement addressed.

RELEASES

0.94.25 11/14/2014
0.94.26 12/29/2014

0.98.7 10/16/2014
0.98.8 11/18/2014
0.98.9 12/23/2014
0.98.10 02/05/2015

We are about to put up our 5th RC for HBase-1.0.0.

COMMITTERS

Liu Shaohui (liushaohui) -- Xiaomi
Virag Kothari (virag) -- Yahoo!
Sean Busbey (busbey) -- Cloudera

PMC

We added no one to the PMC during this period.

COMMUNITY

We have a new look for our website and documentation.

CfP for HBaseCon2015 in San Francisco May 7th closes 02/10/2015

We had the following HBase Meetups:

January 15th, 2015 HBase meetup @ AppDynamics in San Francisco [1]
November 20th, 2014 HBase meetup @ WANdisco in San Ramon [2]
October 27th, 2014 HBase Meetup @ Apple in Cupertino
October 15th, 2014 HBase Meetup @ Google on the night before Strata/HW in NYC

STATS

37 committers [5]

1. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/218744798/
2. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/205219992/
3. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/207386102/
4. http://www.meetup.com/HBase-NYC/events/207655552
5. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html

21 Jan 2015 [Michael Stack / Rich]

No report was submitted.

15 Oct 2014 [Michael Stack / Ross]

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


ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION

None


RELEASES

0.94.22 08/09/2014
0.94.23 09/05/2014
0.94.24 10/04/2014

0.98.4 09/23/2014
0.98.5 08/19/2014
0.98.6 09/10/2014
0.98.6.1 09/18/2014 -- Fixed security issue in 0.98.6.

0.99.0 09/22/2014 -- developer preview of coming HBase 1.0


COMMITTERS

Misty Stanley-Jones (misty)


PMC

Matteo Bertozzi (mbertozzi)
Nick Dimiduk (ndimiduk)
Jeffrey Zhong (jefferyz)


COMMUNITY

We adopted an Orca as mascot [2]

PMC met at Facebook on 09/25/2014. Discussion posted to private@

We had HBase Bay Area Meetups on:

July 17th, 2014 HBase Meetup @ HP in Sunnyvale [3]
August 28th, 2014 HBase Meetup @ Sift Science in San Francisco [5]
September 25th, 2014 HBase Meetup @ Cask in Palo Alto [4]


STATS

36 committers [1]
1011 subscribers to the dev list (Was 1004 at last report)
2218 subscribers to the user list (Was 2207 at last report)


1. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html
2. http://hbase.apache.org/images/jumping-orca_rotated.png
3. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/190994082/
4. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/203173692/
5. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/197773762/

16 Jul 2014 [Michael Stack / Bertrand]

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


ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION

None


RELEASES

0.94.19 04/29/2014
0.94.20 05/29/2014
0.94.21 07/03/2014

0.98.2 04/30/2014
0.98.3 06/09/2014


COMMITTERS

None elected in this period. We have some prospects.


PMC

None elected in this period.


COMMUNITY

We branched 1.0.  We hope to ship 1.0.0 by the time of our next report.

We moved to GIT (with INFRA's help) in late May.

HBaseCon2014 took place on May 5th, 2014 in San Francisco.
There were over 600 attendees with four tracks of talks with keynotes by
facebook, salesforce, and google. It was a good day out.


We had HBase Bay Area Meetups on:

05/06/2014 An HBase Hackathon after the Hadoop Summit in San Jose


STATS

35 committers [1]
1004 subscribers to the dev list (Was 971 at last report)
2207 subscribers to the user list (Was 2172 at last report)


1. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html

16 Apr 2014 [Michael Stack / Greg]

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


ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION

None


RELEASES

0.94.13 - 11/07/2014
0.94.14 - 11/25/2013
0.94.15 - 12/29/2013
0.94.16 - 01/20/2014
0.94.17 - 02/25/2014
0.94.18 - 03/24/2014

0.96.0 - 10/19/2013
0.96.1 - 12/16/2013
0.96.1.1 - 12/20/2013
0.96.2 - 04/03/2014

0.98.0 - 02/16/2014
0.98.1 - 04/06/2014


COMMITTERS

We added the following new committers:

Liang Xie l(liangxie) of Xiaomi
Honghua Feng (fenghh) of Xiaomi


PMC

Anoop Sam John (anoopsamjohn) of Intel


COMMUNITY

We had HBase Bay Area Meetups on:

At Facebook in NYC 10/29/2013 [0]
At Continuuity in Palo Alto 02/10/2014 [1]
At Ancestry.com in San Francisco 03/12/2014 [2]
BOF in Amsterdam before Hadoop Summit [3]

We are getting ready for hbasecon2014, May 5th, in San Francisco [4]



STATS
35 committers [5]
971 subscribers to the dev list (Was 930 at last report)
2172 subscribers to the user list (Was 2093 at last report)

0. http://www.meetup.com/HBase-NYC/events/135434632/
1. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/163139322/
2. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/160757912/
3. http://www.meetup.com/Hadoop-Summit-Community-Amsterdam/events/167306932/
4. hbasecon.com
5. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html

15 Jan 2014 [Michael Stack / Jim]

HBase is a distributed, scalable, big data store
built on top of Hadoop Common and Hadoop HDFS


ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION

None at this time.


RELEASES

0.96.0   10/19/2013 2k fixes
0.94.13  11/07/2013 30 fixes
0.94.14  11/25/2013 31 fixes
0.96.1   12/16/2013 157 fixes
0.96.1.1 12/19/2013 1 fix
0.94.15  12/29/2013 30 fixes



COMMITTERS

We added the following committer:

Liang Xie liangxie@apache.org (Xiaomi)


PMC

We add no new members to the PMC (though we voted on some candidate).


COMMUNITY

We had HBase dev and user meeting on 10/24/2013 at Hortonworks [1][2].
Notes from dev meetup are here [3].

We crossed out HBASE-10000 up in JIRA (not sure if that is good or bad).


STATS
34 committers [4]
950 subscribers to the dev list (Was 930 at last report)
2116 subscribers to the user list (Was 2093 at last report)


1. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/140759692/
2. http://www.meetup.com/hackathon/events/144366512/
3. http://s.apache.org/zdt
4. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html

16 Oct 2013 [Michael Stack / Jim]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION
In our last report, we noted a marked improvement
in how MapR refer to their “HBase compatible” M7
product.  A 09/25/2013 press release relapses at
least regards putting the ‘Apache’ prefix before
first-mentions of HBase and Hadoop.

We are very probably going to commit code that makes
use of the JDK’s cryptographic APIs [1].  Apache legal
affairs [3] were notified as per [2].

RELEASES
0.94.10 -- 07/24/2013
0.94.11 -- 08/21/2013
0.94.12 -- 09/24/2013
0.95.2 -- 08/19/2013 Third developer release off 0.95 branch.
0.96.0RCs -- We are currently on our 5th release candidate.

COMMITTERS
We added the following new committers:
Rajeshbabu Chintaguntla (Huawei) rajeshbabu@apache.org
Nick Dimiduk (HortonWorks) ndimiduk@apache.org

PMC
We added no new PMC members during this period.

COMMUNITY
We had HBase Bay Area Meetups on:
At Flurry in San Francisco on August 20th, 2013 [4]
At Arista in San Francisco on 09/26/2013 [5]

STATS
33 committers [6]
930 subscribers to the dev list (Was 892 at last report)
2093 subscribers to the user list (Was 2020 at last report)

1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-7544Transparent table/CF encryption
2. http://www.apache.org/dev/crypto.html
3. https://mail-search.apache.org/members/private-arch/hbase-private/201310.mbox/browser
4. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/120534362/
5. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/135862292/
6. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html

17 Jul 2013 [Michael Stack / Roy]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION

In our last report, we wrote of how the HBase PMC had gotten no
response to petitions requesting that MapR Technologies fix
conflation of Apache HBase with their MapR M7 product ("Making
HBase™ Enterprise Grade").  After a new set of violations were
raised on trademarks@ on May 3rd [1], Shane wrote them on
May 17th[2].  He got a response.  Since this exchange,
there has been a marked change in how they market their MapR
M7 product; now they talk of it as being a "nosql" store.
Offending text remains[3] but is minor relative to what was
there previous.

RELEASES

0.94.7 -- 04/26/2013
0.94.8 -- 05/30/2013
0.94.9 -- 07/05/2013 Fixes "CVE-2013-2192: Apache Hadoop Man
                     in the Middle Vulnerability"
0.95.1 -- 06/12/2013 The second in a "Development" Series[3]
                     of releases that preview 0.96.0

COMMITTERS

We added the following new committer:

Jeffrey Zhong (HortonWorks) jeffreyz@apache.org


PMC

We added the following PMC members:

Enis Soztutar enis@apache.org
Elliott Clark eclark@apache.org


COMMUNITY

Contribution rate continues healthy.

We had HBase Bay Area Meetups on:

 06/12/2013 Hackathon at Cloudera in San Francisco [5]
 06/25/2013 Meetup before Hadoop Summit in San Jose [6]
 07/16/2013 Meetup at Twitter in San Francisco [7]

We had our second conference, HBaseCon2013, in San Francisco
on June 13th, 2013[8].  Almost 800 people showed up to
listen to 72 speakers spread over four tracks and ~50 talks.


STATS

31 committers [9]
892 subscribers to the dev list (Was 872 at last report)
2020 subscribers to the user list (Was 1974 at last report)


1. https://mail-search.apache.org/members/private-arch/hbase-private/201305.mbox/%3CCA+RK=_CJ=3G-AWuyZ5pBNR8HhBHZnKbvLPu=m7uFHqPMkmMqmg@mail.gmail.com%3E
2. https://mail-search.apache.org/members/private-arch/hbase-private/201305.mbox/%3C51969652.6000009@shanecurcuru.org%3E
3. "M7 also provides instant recovery from failures, ensuring 99.999%
availability for Apache HBase™ and Hadoop applications." from
http://www.mapr.com/products/mapr-editions/m7-edition
4. http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hbase.development.series
5. http://www.meetup.com/hackathon/events/123403802/
6. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/119154442/
7. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/119929152/
8. http://www.hbasecon.com/
9. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html

17 Apr 2013 [Michael Stack / Greg]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION

Following on from our last report where we raised the issue
of MapR Technologies conflating Apache HBase and their M7
offering, we have had no response from MapR to our letter of
January 9th -- we just sent them a ping -- and to my untrained
eye, their website continues in violation [1].

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
1. http://www.mapr.com/products/mapr-editions/m7-edition
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

16 Jan 2013 [Michael Stack / Greg]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION

MapR Technologies released MapR M7 Edition on
10/23/2012.  Their website and supporting
materials for the M7 product claim, "Making HBase
Easy, Dependable, and Fast", and making "HBase
Enterprise Grade" though their product is not HBase.

The HBase PMC, with the help of trademarks@, wrote
MapR on 10/31/2011 asking them to make proper Apache
attribution (They referred to HBase, not Apache HBase),
to note our Apache trademark, and to make clearer the
distinction between their M7 product and HBase on
their website and in their marketing materials.

They have since made changes to their website adding
our Apache prefix and trademark but have yet to address
the larger conflation of M7 and "HBase" issue.  We
sent them a second letter on January 9th (after letting
the text stew a week on trademarks@).

RELEASES

0.94.3 on December 3rd, 2012
0.94.4RC0 was put up on January 3rd, 2013

COMMITTERS

We added:

Jesse Yates (SalesForce) -- jyates@apache.org
Matteo Bertozzi (Cloudera) -- mbertozzi@apache.org
Chunhui Shen (TaoBao) -- zjushch@apache.org

COMMUNITY

We had a bug squashing meetup at Cloudera in San Francisco
on December 4th [1], a user group meeting at Wize Commerce
in San Mateo on October 29th [2], and there was a user group
meetup in NYC on October 25th at AppNexus [3].

26 committers [4] (Was 23 in last report)
833 subscribers to the dev list (Was 800 at last report)
1896 subscribers to the user list (Was 1833 at last report)

1. http://www.meetup.com/hackathon/events/90536432/
2. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/82791572/
3. http://www.meetup.com/HBase-NYC/events/81728932/

AI: Shane: follow up with MapR trademark concerns

17 Oct 2012 [Michael Stack / Brett]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION

None.

RELEASES

0.94.1 on August 8th.
0.94.2 is on its fourth release candidate.
0.92.2 on October 1st.

COMMITTERS

We added:

Gregory Chanan (Cloudera) -- gchanan@apache.org
Enis Soztutar (Hortonworks) -- enis@apache.org
Elliott Clark (Was StumbleUpon when elected, now Cloudera) -- eclark@apache.org

COMMUNITY

Contributors met at Hortonworks for a pow wow on September 11th, 2012 [1].
Notes and pointers to talks posted here [2].

After discussion up on the dev list, we introduced the notion of an
'owner' role. "Owners are volunteers who are (usually, but not necessarily)
expert in a component domain and may have an agenda on how they think
their HBase component should evolve." Owners will try and review patches
that fall within their domain and if an agenda will publish it.  See
[3] for more.

23 committers [4] (Was 20 in last report)
800 subscribers to the dev list (Was 759 at last report)
1833 subscribers to the user list (Was 1734 at last report)

1. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/80621872/
2. http://search-hadoop.com/m/OXGqy1dlFAE1
3. http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#OWNER
4. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html

The "owner" term is problematic, and might be misinterpreted. AI: Brett follow up with PMC to clarify the "owner" role.

25 Jul 2012 [Michael Stack / Brett]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION

None.

RELEASES

0.94.0, a major release, on May 2nd.

A release candidate for 0.92.2 was posted and retracted with
another candidate to follow.  0.94.1 and 0.90.7 release
candidates should be going up in the next week or so.

COMMITTERS

We changed our policy where a committer automatically was also
made a member of the PMC.  Now you become a committer first
and then after a period, you are invited by the PMC to become
a member.  The general consensus was that such a policy would
lower the barrier minting new hbase committers [1].

Nicolas Liochon (Scaled Risk) -- nkeywal@apache.org
Jimmy Xiang (Cloudera) -- jxiang@apache.org
Liyin Tang (Facebook) -- liyin@apache.com

Nicolas and Jimmy are committers only.  Liyin was the last to
make it as a committer+PMC member before the policy change.

COMMUNITY

We had our first hbase conference on May 22nd in San Francisco,
hbasecon [2].  It seems to have gone over well (600 attendees).

A Birds-of-a-feather session on the day after the hadoop summit
was less well attended, ~30 [3].

20 committers [4] (Was 17 in last report)
759 subscribers to the dev list (Was 703 at last report)
1734 subscribers to the user list (Was 1632 at last report)

1. https://mail-search.apache.org/members/private-arch/hbase-private/201205.mbox/%3CCADcMMgHy+TdZyefkruAQog1n8CEY6ajrf=sTh1wR4J+dtEKHFg@mail.gmail.com%3E
2. http://hbasecon.com
3. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/59829652/
4. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html

(HBase)

18 Apr 2012 [Michael Stack / Greg]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION

None


RELEASES

0.90.6, a point release with 38 fixes over 0.90.5.

0.92.0 was released January 23rd.

0.92.1 was released March 17th with 64 fixes over 0.92.0.

The first release candidate for 0.94.0, our next major release, was
put up on March 27th.


COMMITTERS

We added one new committer (and PMC member):

Mikhail Bautin (Facebook)  -- mbautin@apache.org


COMMUNITY

We had a meetup on March 27, 2012 in San Francisco [1].

Beforehand, a majority of PMC members met to discuss face to face
hbase project issues.  The agenda and minutes were posted on our
blog and to the mailing list [2].

We are preparing for the first hbase conference, hbasecon, in
San Francisco on May 22nd [3].

17 committers [4]
703 subscribers to the dev list (Was 674 at last report)
1632 subscribers to the user list (Was 1521 at last report)

1. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/56021562/
2. http://blogs.apache.org/hbase/
3. http://www.hbasecon.com/
4. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html

24 Jan 2012 [Michael Stack / Jim]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION

None

RELEASES

0.90.5, a point release with 80 plus fixes over 0.90.4

Four 0.92.0 release candidates, our next major release.

COMMITTERS

We added three committers:

Kannan Muthukkaruppan (Facebook)
Karthik Ranganathan (Facebook)
Jonathan Hsieh (Cloudera)

COMMUNITY

We had a well attended developer pow-wow at salesforce in SF
on November 29th, 2011 [1].  Here is thread summarizing
discussion posted dev list [2].

We're having a meetup on the 19th of January at EBay [3].

16 committers
674 subscribers to the dev list
1521 subscribers to the user list

1. http://www.meetup.com/hackathon/events/41025972/
2. http://s.apache.org/zA
3. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/46702842/

There appears to be a discrepancy in the url for the hackathon. AI Brett: follow up with PMC and update minutes.

26 Oct 2011 [Michael Stack / Roy]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION

In the HBase project, folks who have been made committers automatically
become members of the HBase PMC only I failed to ask the boards'
permission adding new PMC members.   The current list of committers
who are also members of the PMC can be found here:

 http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html

I will follow the protocol going forward requesting ACK and waiting 72 hours
before adding new PMC members.  Is there anything I should do about my
past failing in this regard?

RELEASES

No new releases.

Developer focus is (still) on stabilizing 0.92.0, our next major release

COMMITTERS

We added two new committers during this period: Ramkrishna S Vasudevan
and Lars Hofhansl

COMMUNITY

The HBase O'Reilly book was released

We have a new logo.

Developer velocity has picked up over the last month.

We had a well attended meetup, ~130 people, at Facebook on 22nd of August [1]
It was preceded by a hackathon attended by ~30 people.

639 subscribers to the dev list
1421 subscribers to the user list

St.Ack

1. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/28518471/
2. http://www.meetup.com/hackathon/events/28754491/

Several PMC members apparently have not been ACK'd by the board.

AI Roy: request PMC chair send list of PMC members that have not been ACK'd so they can be properly approved

17 Aug 2011 [Michael Stack / Roy]

HBase status report, August 2011

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION

None at this time.

RELEASES

0.90.4 should be out by the time the board reads this report

Developer focus is on stabilizing up 0.92.0, our next major release.

COMMITTERS

We added two new committers during this period: Ted Yu and Doug Meil.

COMMUNITY

We had a well attended meetup, ~70 people, at Yahoo on the day after
the Hadoop Summit [1].  Our next hackathon+meetup is on the 22nd [2].

586 subscribers to the dev list
1359 subscribers to the user list
129 subscribers to the issues list

St.Ack

1. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/20572251/
2. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/28518471/

20 Jul 2011 [Michael Stack / Jim]

Report missing; will report next month.

20 Apr 2011 [Michael Stack / Sam]

HBase status report, April 2011

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD'S ATTENTION

None at this time.

RELEASES

We released 0.90.0 in January, 0.90.1 in February, and last week, we
released 0.90.2.

Developer focus is now mostly on getting 0.92.0 out.

COMMITTERS

No new committers during this period.

COMMUNITY

We had a well attended meetup in February [1] and an open hackathon
in March [2]

User mail has about doubled over same period last year.

511 subscribers to the dev list
1217 subscribers to the user list
97 subscribers to the issues list

1. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/16492913/
2. http://www.meetup.com/hackathon/events/16770852/

19 Jan 2011 [Michael Stack / Greg]

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

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD's ATTENTION

None at this time.

RELEASES

We have made four release candidates for 0.90.0 since our last report
where HBase 0.90.0 is the next major HBase release to follow 0.20.0
(For more on the odd looking HBase versioning, see [1] below).

COMMITTERS

We added two new committers during this period.  Gary Helmling has
been a long-time contributor and works for Trend Micro.  Nicolas
Spiegelberg is at Facebook and has made many and substantial
contributions to both HBase and HDFS over the last year or so.

Our PMC voted to make committers == PMC members.  All committers that
were not yet PMC members were promoted.

COMMUNITY

Big news this period was the announcement by Facebook that their
Messaging will be built on top of HBase (For example, [2]).  Facebook
have been making many substantial contributions to HBase over the last
year or so.

Mailing list traffic in user is about constant with this period last
year -- ~500 mesages per month -- with spikes in September and
December where our traffic doubled over last years numbers (Its
hard to compare dev mailing list since it used conflate issues and
dev traffic since fixed).

We had a successful open hackathon at Facebook on December 13th, 2010
attended by about 30 or so folks.

St.Ack

1. http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/HBaseVersions
2. http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/11/16/facebooks-new-real-time-messaging-system-hbase-to-store-135.html
3. http://www.meetup.com/hackathon/calendar/15597555/

20 Oct 2010 [Michael Stack / Greg]

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD'S ATTENTION

None at this time.

RELEASES

We made three releases over this period: a new patch release of our 0.20 branch
-- this is our current 'stable' offering -- and two 'developer
releases' from TRUNK
named 0.89.DATE_OF_RELEASE (See [1] for more on what our
'developer releases' are):

* July 30th, 2010: HBase 0.20.6 released
* August 9th, 2010: HBase 0.89.20100726
* October 5th, 2010: HBase 0.89.20100924

TRUNK is currently under feature freeze as we stabilize before cutting
a 0.90.0 release candidate in the next week or so (0.90.0 will be the
version of our next major release [1]).

COMMITTERS

We added no new committers this period.  We proposed a contributor
who has made > 20 quality patches but he declined our offer.

COMMUNITY

HBase had a respectable showing at Hadoop World, October 12th [2].  The
night before we held our first NYC user group meeting which was well
attended [3].

Mailing list traffic is about constant with this period last year in
the user mailing list, though September traffic was up by about 50%
over last year.

Our Google Summer of Code student completed his 'table snapshot'
assignment -- hbase-50 -- though it is yet to be committed.

There has been healthy debate up on the mailing lists around what will be
included/excluded in our next major release.

1. http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/HBaseVersions
2. http://hbaseblog.com/2010/10/14/hbaseworldnyc2010/
3. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/calendar/14606174/

What is meant by a "developer release". Apache releases software without stipulation for its intended audience.

AI Greg: follow up to clarify the "developer release" term.

21 Jul 2010 [Michael Stack / Greg]

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

On June 30th, the day after the hadoop summit, Facebook hosted an
hbase 'summit' that was well attended [1].

Releases:

* We released hbase-0.20.5 June 24th.  It had 24 fixes over 0.20.4
* We released 0.89.20100621, a stabilized preview/beta of the next
major version of hbase, cut from TRUNK, on June 25th

Next week we will put up two new release candidates: one for 0.20.6
and another release in the 0.89.x series.

Development is brisk on TRUNK as we head toward our next major version
release, hbase-0.90.0.

(To learn about why the jump in hbase versioning -- from 0.20.x to
0.89.x and 0.90.x for our next release, see [2]).

No new committers added in this period.

1. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/calendar/13562846/
2. http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/HBaseVersions

16 Jun 2010 [Michael Stack / Brian]

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

Releases:

* There is currently a release candidate 3 out for 0.20.5
* All developer focus is on the next major release driving at making a
'developer release' in time for the Hadoop Summit at the end of this month.

Move to TLP is now complete.

We added a new committer Todd Lipcon (todd@apache.org).

342 subscribed to the dev@hbase.apache.org list

19 May 2010 [Michael Stack / Geir]

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

Releases:
* 0.20.4 on 2010/05/03 -- 81 fixes.
* There is currently a release candidate out for 0.20.5

We are still awaiting our mailing list and repository move (INFRA-2641).
Once this is done we'll be adding at least one new committer.

21 Apr 2010

Establish the Apache HBase Project

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
 interests of the Foundation and consistent with the
 Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management
 Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of
 open-source software related to data serialization
 for distribution at no charge to the public.

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
 Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache HBase Project",
 be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
 Foundation; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache HBase Project be and hereby is
 responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
 related to a distributed database; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache HBase" be
 and hereby is created, the person holding such office to
 serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair
 of the Apache HBase Project, and to have primary responsibility
 for management of the projects within the scope of
 responsibility of the Apache HBase Project; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and
 hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the
 Apache HBase Project:

   * Michael Stack <stack@apache.org>
   * Jonathan Gray <jgray@apache.org>
   * Andrew Purtell <apurtell@apache.org>
   * John-Daniel Cryans <jdcryans@apache.org>
   * Ryan Rawson <rawson@apache.org>
   * Lars George <larsgeorge@apache.org>

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Michael Stack
 be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache HBase, to
 serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
 Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
 death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification,
 or until a successor is appointed; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the initial Apache HBase PMC be and hereby is
 tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
 encourage open development and increased participation in the
 Apache HBase Project; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache HBase Project be and hereby
 is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
 Hadoop HBase sub-project; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
 Hadoop HBase sub-project encumbered upon the
 Apache Hadoop Project are hereafter discharged.

 Special Order 7F, Establish the Apache HBase Project, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.