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## Description: The mission of Flink is the creation and maintenance of software related to platform for scalable batch and stream data processing ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache Flink was founded 2014-12-17 (10 years ago) There are currently 117 committers and 52 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:4. Community changes, past quarter: (last report: June 14th) - No new PMC members. Last addition was Rui Fan on 2024-06-04. - Junrui Lee was added as committer on 2024-11-12 - Xuannan Su was added as a committer on 2024-08-17 - Ferenc Caky was added as a committer on 2024-08-09 - Hang Ruan was added as a committer on 2024-06-13 ## Project Activity: Releases: - cdc-3.2.1 was released on 2024-11-27. - connector-kafka-3.4.0 was released on 2024-11-25. - connector-aws-5.0.0 was released on 2024-11-11 with new AWS Kinesis Data Stream and DynamoDB Stream Sources - connector-prometheus-1.0.0 was released on 2024-11-08. - flink-kubernetes-operator 1.10 was released on 2024-10-25 with support new APIs for managing snapshots (checkpoints and savepoints) from the operator, and other autoscaler improvements. - Flink 2.0-preview1 was released on 2024-10-23. The preview release is for previewing breaking changes, not for production use. In 2.0 we will remove old APIs and make other breaking changes, besides the addition of some exciting new features, which will be properly announced with the final 2.0 release. - connector-kafka-3.3.0 was released on 2024-10-17. - cdc-3.2.0 was released on 2024-09-05. - Flink 1.20 was released on 2024-08-02. 1.20 deprecates more APIs prior to the upcoming 2.0 release. Otherwise, various SQL syntax enhancements, performance improvements and more Conferences: - Flink Forward, hosted by Ververica and Alibaba Cloud is hosting conferences in Berlin, Germany (October), Shanghai, China (November), Jakarta, Indonesia (December). The conferences seem well-attended. - Current 2024, hosted in Austin, TX in September featured a lot of Flink content. ## Community Health: - Some community members have launched a "Community Health Initiative (CHI)". The problem the workgroup wants to address is a high number of unmerged PRs, improve the experience for new contributors and to merge / address critical issues in a timely manner. The work group wants to remove the need for the workgroup and go back to business-as-usual as soon as possible. Currently, the group meets weekly, alternating between eastern and western friendly timezones. All decisions will go through the dev list. The PMC supports this initiative, as the number of committers active in reviewing PRs is perceived to be lower than in the past. - dev@ activity has gone down by 23%, while issues@ seems stable. For the other lists, data from the metrics seem to be incomplete. In the last report, we had an increase of 22% on the dev@ list. Maybe the provided metrics need to cover longer time-spans.
## Description: The mission of Flink is the creation and maintenance of software related to platform for scalable batch and stream data processing ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache Flink was founded 2014-12-17 (10 years ago) There are currently 116 committers and 52 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Rui Fan on 2024-06-04. - Ferenc Csaky was added as committer on 2024-08-15 - Zhongqiang Gong was added as committer on 2024-07-09 - Ruan Hang was added as committer on 2024-06-14 - Xuannan Su was added as committer on 2024-08-19 ## Project Activity: We've had a minor Flink 1.20.0 release in August, probably the last release before the 2.0 release, which we are currently working towards. The primary focus of 2.0 is to cleanup deprecated APIs and resolve long-standing issues that are breaking changes. Various Flink sub-projects also had releases: - Flink CDC 3.2.0, the 3rd release since the code donation -- good pace - flink-shaded - 7 Flink connector releases in June ## Community Health: The community is healthy. The mailing list and commit activity is a bit down, probably because of the summer vacation season.
## Description: The mission of Flink is the creation and maintenance of software related to platform for scalable batch and stream data processing ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache Flink was founded 2014-12-17 (9 years ago) There are currently 112 committers and 50 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - Jing Ge was added to the PMC on 2024-04-12 - Lincoln Lee was added to the PMC on 2024-04-12 - Alexander Fedulov was added as committer on 2024-04-18 - Zakelly Lan was added as committer on 2024-04-26 - Weijie Guo was added to the PMC on 2024-06-04 - Rui Fan was added to the PMC on 2024-06-04 ## Project Activity: Recent Releases: * cdc-3.1.0 was released on 2024-05-17. * kubernetes-operator-1.8.0 was released on 2024-03-21. * 1.19.0 was released on 2024-03-18. The Flink CDC connectors have been successfully donated from Ververica to the ASF, with the sub-project successfully creating its first release (3.1.0). Flink 1.19 has been released -- with major improvements across the board, in particular Flink SQL. ## Community Health: The Flink community is healthy and active. The dev@ list keeps increasing in activity (with increases of 14% in the December 23 report, 6% in the March report and now a 22% increase). However, there are a few messages on dev@ which remain unanswered. The user@ list had a 58% increase (last report it was down 37%) -- we hope that the list activity stays at the higher level going forward. Code-related metrics are pointing downwards this quarter (JIRA issues, commits, contributors, PRs) .. but we anticipate the number to go up again closer to the 1.20 release feature freeze. We have some delays in releasing new Flink connector versions due to the lack of PMC votes.
## Description: The mission of Flink is the creation and maintenance of software related to platform for scalable batch and stream data processing ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache Flink was founded 2014-12-17 (9 years ago) There are currently 109 committers and 48 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matthias Pohl on 2023-08-03. - Alexander Fedulov as invited as committer on 2023-12-22 - Jiabao Sun was added as committer on 2024-02-09 - Mason Chen was invited as committer on 2024-02-13 The Flink PMC is actively monitoring and discussing new PMC and committers. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: * Flink 1.18.1 was released on 2024-01-19 * connector-parent-1.1.0 was released on 2024-02-28. * connector-mongodb-1.1.0 was released on 2024-02-19 * connector-jdbc-3.1.2 was released on 2024-02-21. * connector-opensearch-1.1.0 was released on 2024-02-01. * gcp-pubsub-3.0.2 was released on 2024-01-12. * shaded-18.0 was released on 2024-01-11. The PMC approved a request for Flink Forward Asia 2024 by Alibaba. There were two security reports to the PMC, which were handled. Ververica started a discussion to contribute the Flink CDC connectors to Flink. The Flink community happily accepted this adoption of a new codebase into the project, as CDC use cases with Flink SQL are very popular in the user base. Flink started participating in the trial of the ASF Infra provided GitHub Actions runners. ## Community Health: The Flink community is healthy and active. In the last report, we had a 14% activity increase on the dev@ mailing list, this reporting cycle, the increase is 6%. We anticipate the activity to increase or stay at this level as there are major projects around Flink 2.0 ongoing. The code commit activity is also going up. The only metric that is going down is the user@ mailing list (-37%), which is probably primarily driven by a shift towards the Flink Community Slack, and also in less activity by experienced community members on the user@ list.
## Description: The mission of Flink is the creation and maintenance of software related to platform for scalable batch and stream data processing ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache Flink was founded 2014-12-17 (9 years ago) There are currently 108 committers and 48 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Matthias Pohl on 2023-08-03. - Jane Chan was added as committer on 2023-10-13 - liu ron was added as committer on 2023-10-13 The Flink PMC is actively monitoring and discussing new PMC and committers. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: * connector-kafka-3.0.2 was released on 2023-12-01. * connector-aws-4.2.0 was released on 2023-11-30. * kubernetes-operator-1.7.0 was released on 2023-11-21. * connector-kafka-3.0.1 was released on 2023-10-30. * 1.18.0 was released on 2023-10-27. From this list, the Flink 1.18 release is a major highlight with improvements around Flink SQL (jdbc driver, extended DDL support, querying on historic data), streaming engine improvements (per-operator state ttl, watermark alignment for SQL), as well as the batch execution, with performance improvements. For improved cloud/scaling support, fine-grained resource elasticity and rescaling improvements for RocksDB have been added. The 1.7 release of the K8s operator decouples the autoscaler, drops legacy Flink versions and other improvements. The PMC has been handling a few security@ reports, as well as trademark issues with various vendors offering Flink-based products. ## Community Health: The Flink community is very healthy and active. There's a 14% increase in activity on the dev@ mailing list, with discussions around various FLIPs and proposals, such as contributing the collection of CDC connectors to Flink, migrating from Azure Pipelines to Github Actions, planning Flink 1.19 as well as Flink 2.0. The commit activity is also going up. Some metrics around Jira tickets and pull requests are going down, but there are no concerns by the PMC about this. Flink Forward Seattle was held early November, with 45 talks and 400 registrations. Flink Forward Asia was held on Dec 8 and 9th in Beijing with 78 talks and 550 attendees on site, as well as 110k unique viewers of the keynote live stream.
## Description: The mission of Flink is the creation and maintenance of software related to platform for scalable batch and stream data processing ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing, with high activity Issues for the board: none The project is wrapping up the 1.18 release of Flink, with major (auto-)scaling and performance improvements, planned for end of September. At the same time, the community is actively planning the release of Flink 2.0. ## Membership Data: Apache Flink was founded 2014-12-17 (9 years ago) There are currently 106 committers and 48 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:3. Community changes, past quarter: - Matthias Pohl was added to the PMC on 2023-08-03 - Hangxiang Yu was added as committer on 2023-08-07 - Hong Liang Teoh was added as committer on 2023-08-02 - Weihua Hu was added as committer on 2023-08-10 - Yanfei Lei was added as committer on 2023-08-07 - Fang Yong was added as committer on 2023-07-24 ## Project Activity: The project is actively preparing the 1.18 release. The feature freeze was on July 24th, we are currently testing and stabilizing the release, with a planned release end of September. The discussions about Flink 2.0 are still ongoing. The release managers have driven a vote on "must have" items for the 2.0 release. Many of them are removal of deprecated APIs (such as the DataSet batch processing API, the Scala API), rework of configuration options, the REST API etc. The goal is to ship Flink 2.0 by end of 2024 (after Flink 1.20), while deprecating everything affected by 2.0 in the releases to come. Recent releases: - connector-mongodb-1.0.2 was released on 2023-08-15 - Flink Kubernetes operator 1.16.0 was relesed on 2023-08-15 - flink-connector-jdbc was released on 2023-06-29 - connector-pulsar-3.0.1 was released on 2023-06-07 ## Community Health: After reporting slight declines in the dev@ activity (-12%) in the last report, we finally see a (tiny) 2% increase in the dev@ activity again (2362 emails). user@ even saw an increase of 11%, despite the Flink Slack channel being quite active. The # of commits is down -36%, same for contributors (-22%) and PRs closed (-23%). However, as mentioned before, the project is actively moving all Flink connectors to separate repositories, so this is expected (assuming the community health data is only generated from the main repo).
## Description: The mission of Flink is the creation and maintenance of software related to platform for scalable batch and stream data processing ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing, with a moderate to high level of activity. Issues for the board: There are no Board-level issues at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Flink was founded 2014-12-17 (8 years ago) There are currently 101 committers and 47 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:3. Community changes, past quarter: - Leonard Xu was added to the PMC on 2023-04-18 - Qingsheng Ren was added to the PMC on 2023-04-18 - Etienne Chauchot was added as committer on 2023-04-21 - Gabor Somogyi was added as committer on 2023-04-20 - Yuxia Luo was added as committer on 2023-03-10 The PMC is continuously monitoring for new committers and PMC members. ## Project Activity: We'll start of this report with some great recognition of the Flink communities work: Apache Flink is getting the SIGMOD systems award 2023 for its significant impact on stream data-processing. SIGMOD is the biggest database research conference in the world. Here's an overview over the project activity: * Releases: In the reporting timeframe, there were 19 releases: Mostly from the connector externalization, some bugfix releases (1.16.2, 1.17.1, 1.15.4) and a big release: Flink 1.17.0 with major improvements on batch processing, efficiency and the interfaces. * There is a discussion about the future of the "Flink Statefun" subproject. Most of the active contributors have moved on, so there's little to no activity in Stateful Functions currently. The PMC has reached out to the dev@ list to check if there's people willing to take ownership in the project. The discussion is still ongoing. It seems that current users of the project like it and the idea, but there doesn't seem to be a bigger group of new contributors at the moment. There are ideas about a fork outside of the ASF, or maintaining it with some help from committers in the ASF for some more time. * 2.0 discussion: A discussion about Flink 2.0 has been started. Flink 1.0 is 7 years ago. The discussion is about a long-term plan, not an immediate 2.0 release, as this will disrupt a lot of things (ongoing development, breaking API changes, ...). There is wide consensus in the community that a 2.0 release should happen and is overdue. There were discussions on the scope of the release. Follow up discussions from the initial 2.0 discussion: * The community is preparing a discussion for the project roadmap, triggered by the 2.0.0 discussion and the outdated roadmap on the website. * API and general compatibility between 1.x and 2.x * Work items for 2.0 release to be collected in the Wiki There were branding requests for Flink-conferences in Beijing (Flink Forward Asia 2023), Singapore (rejected by the ApacheCon planners) and Seattle (Flink Forward Seattle 2023). As well as branding requests by AWS and Confluent. Flink 1.18 feature freeze is scheduled by end of June. ## Community Health: - From the project activity report, you can see there were some healthy discussions around Flink 2.0, roadmap and various releases and FLIPs. - Looking at the statistics (comparing to the previous quarter), there is a +29% increase on the user-zh@flink.apache.org list, all other metrics are in a slight decline: dev@ ML -12%, Jira's opened -15%, Jira's closed: -19%. However, these activities are still at high base numbers: 886 issues opened, 841 commits, etc.
## Description: The mission of Flink is the creation and maintenance of software related to platform for scalable batch and stream data processing ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Flink was founded 2014-12-17 (8 years ago) There are currently 100 committers and 46 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:3. Community changes, past quarter: - Dong Lin was added to the PMC on 2023-02-16 - Anton Kalashnikov was added as committer on 2023-02-14 - Rui Fan was added as committer on 2023-02-14 - Weijie Guo was added as committer on 2023-02-11 - Jing Ge was added as committer on 2023-02-14 - Lincoln Lee was added as committer on 2023-01-07 - Sergey Nuyanzin was added as committer on 2023-02-16 - Yuxia Luo was added as committer on 2023-03-10 ## Project Activity: Releases: - kubernetes-operator-1.4.0 was released on 2023-02-22 (this is a major milestone, adding support for autoscaling) - Flink 1.16.1 was released on 2023-01-30. - flink-table-store 0.3.0 was released on 2023-01-13 - kubernetes-operator-1.3.1 was released on 2023-01-10. - connector-opensearch-1.0.0 was released on 2022-12-22. - connector-jdbc-3.0.0 was released on 2022-12-21. - connector-pulsar-3.0.0 was released on 2022-12-21. - connector-rabbitmq-3.0.0 was released on 2022-12-21. Upcoming releases: The community is close to finalizing the upcoming Flink 1.17.0 release with substantial batch and stream processing improvements. Other activity: - Part of the community decided to bring the flink-table-store project to the ASF incubator to establish this as a new project called Paimon. - There are discussions about improving the project website, initially from a design / UX perspective. The build system of the website has recently been upgraded to Hugo. - The PMC continues to handle security-related requests. - Our effort to externalize connectors from the main repo to separate ones has continued and almost all connectors are now separated. ## Community Health: The Flink community enjoys a community health score of 10 (super healthy). The project has just reached the milestone of 100 committers. As you can see from the membership data above, we've added quite a few committers and a new PMC member to the project in the last quarter, and the PMC continues to monitor and mentor promising contributors. After slight decreases in mailing list activity reported in the last quarter, we now this being stopped, with the number being steady (2% increase in dev@). Jira and GitHub activity is also good.
## Description: The mission of Flink is the creation and maintenance of software related to platform for scalable batch and stream data processing ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Flink was founded 2014-12-17 (8 years ago) There are currently 93 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1. Community changes, past quarter: - Danny Cranmer was added to the PMC on 2022-10-07 - Godfrey He was added to the PMC on 2022-12-01 - Xingbo Huang was added to the PMC on 2022-12-01 - Matyas Orhidi was added as committer on 2022-11-17 - Lincoln Lee was invited as a committer on 2022-12-08 The PMC is actively monitoring the community for new committers and PMC members. ## Project Activity: Main project releases: - 1.16.0 was released on 2022-10-28 - 1.15.3 was released on 2022-11-25. Sub project releases: - connector-aws-4.0.0 was released on 2022-12-09. - connector-aws-3.0.0 was released on 2022-12-02. - connector-cassandra-3.0.0 was released on 2022-12-01. - shaded-16.1 was released on 2022-11-24. - connector-elasticsearch-3.0.0 was released on 2022-11-09. - kubernetes-operator-1.2.0 was released on 2022-10-07. - kubernetes-operator-1.3.0 was released on 2022-12-13. - shaded-16.0 was released on 2022-10-07. As you can see from the release activity, we had plenty of releases for connectors, as the community is in the process of moving connectors from the main repository into separate repositories, for a number of reasons. Flink 1.17 is underway, with a scheduled feature freeze in January. Flink 1.16 was released in late October with major new features, such as a SQL Gateway, Changelog statebackend, better Hive compatibility and a lot of performance and usability improvements for batch and stream processing. The Flink PMC worked with Alibaba to resolve some trademark issues on the Flink Forward Asia 2022 website, then approved the brand usage. There is an increased load on the PMC to handle Jira account requests due to process changes by Infra. Flink Stateful Functions (a subproject of Flink) is lacking maintainers, as all of the original authors have different priorities. There are some new contributors providing some help (support for new versions etc.) and the original authors are willing to support the transition. ## Community Health: The activity on the dev@ list seems to stable (2% increase since last quarter), which is good, as this list is the primary communication channel for developers The metrics around the code are going down: - 974 commits in the past quarter (-13% change) - 127 code contributors in the past quarter (-23% change) - 713 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-19% change) - 722 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-16% change) However, it is likely caused by the fact that only the main repository is tracked, and not all the sub repositories (kubernetes operator and table store are quite active repositories) Overall, the community is healthy.
## Description: The mission of Flink is the creation and maintenance of software related to scalable batch and stream data processing ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Flink was founded 2014-12-16 (8 years ago) There are currently 92 committers and 42 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1. Community changes, past quarter: - Martijn Visser was added to the PMC on 2022-09-08 - Caizhi Weng was added as committer on 2022-09-08 - Junhan Yang was added as committer on 2022-08-19 - Qingsheng Ren was added as committer on 2022-06-17 - Shengkai Fang was added as committer on 2022-06-17 - Lijie Wang was added as committer on 2022-08-24 ## Project Activity: - The Flink project has set up a community Slack (in June), which just surpassed the 1000 members mark, so it is being adopted nicely. The user@ mailing list saw a 4% drop in activity, which is likely caused by that (and the summer travel season). - The first in-person Flink Forward conference happened in San Francisco in early August, with a good mix of use-case and deep-dive talks. - Lightbend's decision to change the license of Akka has triggered a discussion and a clarifying blog post. The community will make sure that the license change does not affect Flink users. - The next big release, Flink 1.16 is still being prepared (feature freeze happened already. The community has finished testing major new features and will soon start creating the first release candidate. - 1.14.6 is currently being VOTEd on - flink-tablestore-0.2.0 on 2022-08-29 - 1.15.2 was released on 2022-08-23. - kubernetes-operator-1.1.0 was released on 2022-07-24. - ml-2.1.0 was released on 2022-07-08. - 1.15.1 was released on 2022-07-05. - 1.14.5 was released on 2022-06-22. ## Community Health: - Some metrics are (again) indicating an overall reduced activity: JIRAs opened -16%, commits -11%, PRs opened -8% (previous quarter had commits - 15%, PRs opened -15%). However, it seems that the PR / commit activity is only reflecting the main repo of the project, and not the increasing number of additional repositories (kubernetes operator, Flink ML, table-store, per-connector repositories). - The PMC is functioning, discussing and actively adding more committers/PMC members, responding to security requests and revisiting policies around the Apache Flink twitter account.
## Description: The mission of Flink is the creation and maintenance of software related to platform for scalable batch and stream data processing ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Flink was founded 2014-12-17 (7 years ago) There are currently 87 committers and 40 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1. Community changes, past quarter: - Jingsong Lee was added to the PMC on on 2022-05-31 - Yang Wang was added to the PMC on 2022-05-05 - Yuan Mei was added to the PMC on 2022-03-14 - David Morávek was added as committer on 2022-03-04 - Martijn Visser was added as committer on 2022-03-03 ## Project Activity: - Releases: - Flink 1.15 has been released on May 5th. It contains major improvements across all components of Flink. - The upcoming Flink 1.16 release is scheduled for August 2022 - Flink Kubernetes Operator 1.0.0 release is currently VOTEd on - Flink 1.14.5 bugfix release is being discussed - Flink Table Store 0.1.0 has been released in early May - Flink Kubernetes Operator 0.1.0 has has been released in early April - Flink 1.14.4 bugfix release has been released on March 11 - Apache Flink is participating in Alibaba Summer of Code (ASOC) with three projects. There's a new wiki page for tracking these initiatives. - The project is in the process of setting up a Community Slack instance, to offer an alternative to the mailing lists. The community is well aware that mailing lists are the ground truth for the communication and decision making. We'll be providing some guidance on our website and within the Slack instance. - Flink Forward San Francisco is scheduled to happen early August. The CfP has recently closed and speakers have been notified already. ## Community Health: The PMC is actively monitoring potential new committer candidates. There were a few candidates discussed recently that need more guidance. The community health numbers look good. From the community metrics, it seems that there is a 15% reduction in Pull Request and commit activity. We'll monitor the development. These are the relevant stats: - 1336 commits in the past quarter (-15% change) - 163 code contributors in the past quarter (-1% change) - 921 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-15% change) - 841 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-17% change) - dev@flink.apache.org had a 2% increase in traffic in the past quarter (2241 emails compared to 2178)
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Stephan Ewen (sewen) to the office of Vice President, Apache Flink, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Stephan Ewen from the office of Vice President, Apache Flink, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Flink project has chosen by vote to recommend Robert Metzger (rmetzger) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Stephan Ewen is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Flink, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Robert Metzger be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Flink, 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 7A, Change the Apache Flink Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
## Description: The mission of Flink is the creation and maintenance of software related to platform for scalable batch and stream data processing ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Flink was founded 2014-12-17 (7 years ago) There are currently 85 committers and 38 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1. Community changes, past quarter: - Yun Gao was added to the PMC on 2022-02-07 - Konstantin Knauf was added to the PMC on 2022-01-17 - Ingo Bürk was added as committer on 2021-12-07 - Feng Wang was added as committer on 2022-01-28 - Dong Lin was added as committer on 2022-01-19 - Matthias Pohl was added as committer on 2021-12-07 - Zhipeng Zhang was added as committer on 2022-01-25 - Martijn Visser was added as a committer on 2022-02-27 After being the PMC Chair for Flink for 7+ years, Stephan Ewen brought up changing the position, because he is going on a six month parental leave (the change is considered permanent for now). The PMC decided for Robert Metzger to be the next PMC Chair. ## Project Activity: Releases: - The community is working on wrapping up the next major Flink release (1.15.0). We are past the feature freeze, currently focusing on fixing the last bugs and testing new features. The final release is expected soon. - Flink ML 2.0.0 was released in early January. Apache Flink ML provides API and infrastructure that simplifies implementing distributed ML algorithms and it also provides a library of off-the-shelf ML algorithms. - Flink Stateful Functions 3.2.0 was released by end of January. - We released a series of emergency releases for old Flink versions to upgrade the included log4j versions. Initiatives: - Flink has migrated away from Google Analytics to Matomo to track and analyze the website visitor traffic. Matomo is hosted by the Apache Privacy Project on a VM from Infra: https://matomo.privacy.apache.org/ - Flink has launched a new initiative to implement a Kubernetes Operator under the ASF umbrella. There have been a few operator implementations outside the ASF before. - The community decided to move all Flink connectors to separate repositories. The goal is to improve the overall connector ecosystem, allowing faster releases, more contributor activity, standardized documentation and faster Flink CI runtime. All connectors will remain under the ASF umbrella. - Some community members have started discussions about deprecating or dropping unmaintained and unused components (mostly connectors) in Flink. - For Flink StatefulFunctions, we've released a JavaScript SDK on npm. The account for npm is controlled by the PMC. - We have discussed and decided to create a separate sub-project for the dynamic table storage (FLIP-188) and development is actively in progress. ## Community Health: The Flink community is very healthy. Some of the project activities mentioned above were driven by new community members, even before they became committers (for example Martijn was driving the Matomo effort as a contributor).
## Description:
Apache Flink is a distributed system for unified batch- and streaming data
processing. Flink consists of a scalable high-performance runtime and
many APIs and libraries, including SQL, functional DSLs in Java, Scala,
Python, and the Stateful Functions library for event-driven applications.
Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader
ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Kafka, Pulsar,
Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, Calcite, Iceberg, Hudi, and various others.
## Issues:
## Membership Data:
PMC changes since the previous report:
- Igal Shilman was added to the PMC on 2021-09-29
New committers since previous report:
- Yangze Guo was added as committer on 2021-11-11
- Jing Zhang was added as committer on 2021-11-11
- Leonard Xu was added as committer on 2021-11-11
- Fabian Paul was added as committer on 2021-11-14
- Yingjie Cao was added as committer on 2021-11-17
- Ingo Bürk was added as committer on 2021-12-07
- Matthias Pohl was added as committer on 2021-12-07
The newest PMC member is Igal Shilman, joined on September 29th, 2021.
The newest committer is Ingo Bürk, joined on December 7th, 2021.
There are currently 82 committers and 36 PMC members in this project.
## Releases
The following releases were made since the last board report:
- Flink 1.14.0 was released on 2021-09-29.
- Flink 1.13.3 was released on 2021-10-19.
## Project Activity:
- After releasing the big 1.14.0 release in September, the community is
working on Flink 1.15. We are currently putting (among other things)
effort into connectors, managed tables in SQL, support for consistent
stateful upgrades for streaming SQL queries, faster savepoints, as well as
improvements to job life cycle management and the ops APIs.
- Major upcoming changes for existing users are the deprecation of Java 8
support, as well as making Flink independent of Scala versions (so users
can use any Scala version against Flink's Java APIs).
- The community has started an effort to move connectors from the current
big mono-repo to a separate repository. We believe this has multiple
advantages, like lowering the contribution barrier, faster and more stable
builds on the core repository, as well as enforcing connector API
stability.
- We did a public retrospective of the previous release cycle, called
"Flink Backwards" (a pun referring to the name of the the Flink Forward
conference). That was well received and we plan to do this again for the
next release. We also want to explore public status syncs meetings.
- There is an ongoing effort to re-define and enhance API stability. We
observed that many components that are labeled as 'evolving' are in
practice heavily used (and are pre-requisites for certain use cases). The
community is discussing better ways to classify APIs as well as guidelines
when a APIs should move from 'evolving' to 'stable'.
- The Flink Forward EU/US conference took place in a virtual format in
October. Flink Forward Asia will take place on January 8-9 in a mixed
physical/virtual format.
## Community Health:
The activity on mailing lists and JIRA is still high, but lower than
the spring and summer spikes.
- user@f.a.o is at 1602 mails/quarter
- user-zh@f.a.o is at 889 mails/quarter
- dev@f.a.o is at 1967 mails/quarter
- As usual in the first half of a release cycle, there is quite some
activity around major change proposals (FLIPs = Flink Improvement
Proposals).
- 979 JIRA issues opened, 709 JIRA issues closed.
- 877 PRs opened, 752 PRs closed.
## Description:
Apache Flink is a distributed system for unified batch- and streaming data
processing. Flink consists of a scalable high-performance runtime and
many APIs and libraries, including SQL, functional DSLs in Java, Scala,
Python, and the Stateful Functions library for event-driven applications.
Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader
ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Kafka, Pulsar,
Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, Calcite, Iceberg, Hudi, and various others.
## Issues:
- There are currently no community issues that require board attention.
## Membership Data:
PMC changes since the previous report:
- Arvid Heise was added to the PMC on 2021-06-16
- Xintong Song was added to the PMC on 2021-06-16
- Guowei Ma was added to the PMC on 2021-07-06
New committers since previous report:
- Yang Wang was added as committer on 2021-07-06
- Yuan Mei was added as committer on 2021-07-06
- Yun Gao was added as committer on 2021-08-02
The newest PMC member is Guowei Ma, joined on July 6th, 2021.
The newest committer is Yun Gao, joined on August 2nd, 2021.
There are currently 75 committers and 35 PMC members in this project.
## Releases
The following releases were made since the last board report:
- Flink 1.11.4 was released on 2021-08-09
- Flink 1.12.4 was released on 2021-05-21
- Flink 1.12.5 was released on 2021-08-06
- Flink 1.13.1 was released on 2021-05-28
- Flink 1.13.2 was released on 2021-08-06
- Flink Stateful Functions 3.1.0 was released on 2021-08-31.
- Flink Shaded (Vendored Libraries) 14.0 was released on 2021-07-21.
## Project Activity:
- The community is approaching the Flink 1.14.0 release and finalizing the
testing. The release notably improves the batch/streaming interplay of
APIs and applications. Examples are the support of checkpointing in
partially-finished bounded dataflows, smooth navigation between the
DataStream and Table API for batch executed jobs, improvements to the
unified source/sink APIs and metrics.
- In the meantime the community has released a set of bugfix releases for
the 1.11.x, 1.12.x, and 1.13.x lines.
- The Stateful Functions project has released its 3.1 version, which adds
features like a new Go SDK, a much more scalable remote function
dispatcher, as well as many ease-of-setup improvements.
- The Flink Forward (October 2021) conference published its program, with a
mix of getting-started talks, tutorials, industry use cases, and deep
dives. https://www.flink-forward.org/global-2021
The conference is virtual and free to attend.
- The community is still discussing and exploring how to tune the recently
introduced Jira bot. We want to get the benefits of some automated issue
management help, but make sure we don't discourage any users or
contributors.
- There is an ongoing thread about enforcing Apache Flink trademark in
China, for which the ASF trademark folks are helping us.
## Community Health:
The Flink community is happy that Flink again ended up in the top most active
Apache projects. This is a great validation for all of us and the effort we
put into this.
The activity on mailing lists and JIRA remains high, with what looks like
a summer vacation dip on the user list.
- user@f.a.o is at 1668 mails/quarter
- user-zh@f.a.o is at 889 mails/quarter
- dev@f.a.o is at 2313 mails/quarter
- 1261 JIRA issues opened, 1174 JIRA issues closed.
- 1188 PRs opened, 1135 PRs closed.
- The community created and is discussing around 15 new major feature
proposals (FLIPs = Flink Improvement Proposals)
## Description: Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java, Scala, Python, and libraries for various use cases. Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Calcite, Hadoop, Mesos, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, and various others. ## Issues: - There are currently no community issues that require board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Flink was founded 2014-12-17 (6 years ago) There are currently 72 committers and 32 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Zhu Zhu on 2020-10-05. - Rui Li was added as committer on 2021-04-21 There are discussions and two ongoing votes for adding more PMC members. ## Project Activity: In April, Flink Stateful Functions released a new major version (3.0.0), focusing on making remote functions first-class citizens, making scalable stateful applications easy to build and run across different languages. In May Flink released version 1.13, a big release adding a reactive scaling mode, better performance monitoring tools and many other exciting features. The community has started discussing and planning the 1.14 release, intended to be released by September. Besides these major releases, there were a few bugfix and tooling releases: 1.13.1 was released on 2021-05-28. 1.12.4 was released on 2021-05-21. 1.12.3 was released on 2021-04-28. shaded-13.0 was released on 2021-04-06. ## Community Health: The community metrics look good: There's a 91% increase on issues@f.a.o, likely caused by a Jira bot we introduced, the users@f.a.o list has a 18% traffic increase, while activity on dev@ reduced by 12%. - There's been an effort to clean up the Flink Jira by introducing a bot that performs basic tasks such as unassigning stale tickets or closing inactive tickets automatically. We are still refining the exact parameters, otherwise the bot was well accepted. - We updated the project roadmap on the website and introduced a feature radar listing the stability / maturity of Flink features -- this was very well received - There's going to be another (virtual) Flink Forward conference, with the CfP closing on June 21.
## Description:
Apache Flink is a distributed system for unified batch- and streaming data
processing. Flink consists of a scalable high-performance runtime and
many APIs and libraries, including SQL, functional DSLs in Java, Scala,
Python, and the Stateful Functions library for event-driven applications.
Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader
ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Kafka, Pulsar,
Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, Calcite, Iceberg, Hudi, and various others.
## Issues:
- There are currently no community issues that require board attention.
## Membership Data:
PMC changes since previous report:
- Kostas Tzoumas resigned from the PMC on 2021-02-26 after winding
down his involvement.
New committers since previous report:
- Danny Cranmer was added as committer on 2021-01-08
- Guowei Ma was added as committer on 2021-01-19
- Xingbo Huang was added as committer on 2021-02-02
- Wei Zhong was added as committer on 2021-02-02
- Roman Khachatryan was added as committer on 2021-02-09
The newest PMC member is Zhu Zhu, joined on October 5th, 2020.
The newest committer is Roman Khachatryan, joined on February 9th, 2021.
There are currently 71 committers and 32 PMC members in this project.
## Releases
The following releases were made since the last board report:
- Flink 1.12.2 was released on 2021-03-05.
- Flink 1.12.1 was released on 2021-01-19.
- Flink 1.11.3 was released on 2020-12-17.
- Flink 1.10.3 was released on 2021-01-29.
- Flink Stateful Functions 2.2.2 was released on 2021-01-02.
## Project Activity:
- The community is approaching the Flink 1.13.0 release, which introduces
new features like reactive scaling, various improvements for K8s
deployment, SQL semantics, unaligned checkpoints, and savepoints.
- In the meantime the community has released a set of bugfix releases, also
for older Flink versions to address two reported CVEs.
- The Stateful Functions project is approaching the 3.0 release, which is
putting the focus onto remote functions, a new type system, and extending
the set of SDKs (currently Java and Python).
- The project is discussing how to handle confusion with users about Flink
supporting code execution. Distributed code execution (over data streams)
is what Flink is meant to be, however we repeatedly see some users
confused about whether this is a vulnerability.
## Community Health:
The activity on mailing lists and JIRA remains high, but slightly lower in
this quarter (which contained the Christmas Holiday and Luna New Year seasons)
compared to the previous quarter.
- user@f.a.o is at 2219 mails/quarter
- user-zh@f.a.o is at 2130 mails/quarter
- dev@f.a.o is at 2420 mails/quarter
- 1114 JIRA tickets created
- 787 JIRA tickets closed
- 839 PRs opened
- 779 PRs closed
- The community created around 15 new major feature proposals
(FLIPs = Flink Improvement Proposals)
## Description:
Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming
data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains
functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java, Scala, Python, and
libraries for various use cases.
Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader
ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Calcite,
Hadoop, Mesos, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, and various others.
## Issues:
- There are currently no community issues that require board attention.
## Membership Data:
PMC changes since previous report:
- Zhu Zhu joined the PMC on 2020-10-05
New committers since previous report:
- Godfrey He was added as committer on 2020-09-11
- Congxian Qiu was added as committer on 2020-10-27
- Niels Basjes was added as committer on 2020-09-14
The newest PMC member is Zhu Zhu, joined on October 5th, 2020.
The newest committer is Congxian Qiu, joined on October 27th, 2020.
There are currently 66 committers and 33 PMC members in this project.
## Releases
The following releases were made since the last board report:
- Flink 1.12.0 was released on 2020-12-10.
- Flink 1.11.2 was released on 2020-09-17.
- Flink Stateful Functions 2.2.1 was released on 2020-11-10.
- Flink Stateful Functions 2.2.0 was released on 2020-09-28.
- shaded-12.0 (vendored dependencies) was released on 2020-10-06.
## Project Activity:
- The community released Flink 1.12, with a lot of exciting features, like
batch-on-DataStream support, SQL Temporal Tables, a new transactional sink
API, and much more. The release was supported by around 300 contributors.
Details are here:
https://flink.apache.org/news/2020/12/10/release-1.12.0.html
- In the meantime the community has release Flink 1.11.2 and is preparing to
release version 1.11.3 with various fixes and improvements backported from
Flink 1.12.
- The Stateful Functions project released a 2.2 release with many stability
fixes and is gearing up for the next release, which is focusing on bigger
features, like adding Java and Go SDKs.
- The Flink Forward China will happen Dec. 13-15, with a set of talks from
committers and users.
## Community Health:
Going towards the big 1.12 release, there was more activity on the dev lists
and JIRA, and the user lists went slightly more quiet than the quarter before:
- user@f.a.o is roughly stable (2144 mails/quarter)
- user-zh@f.a.o is a bit more quiet (2487 mails/quarter)
- dev@f.a.o is more active due to release efforts (2740 mails/quarter)
- 1329 JIRA tickets created
- 1263 JIRA tickets closed
- 1046 PRs opened
- 1062 PRs closed
- The community created around 10 new major feature proposals
(FLIPs = Flink Improvement Proposals)
## Description: Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java, Scala, Python, and libraries for various use cases. Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Calcite, Hadoop, Mesos, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, and various others. ## Issues: - There are currently no community issues that require board attention. ## Membership Data: PMC changes since previous report: - Yu Li joined the PMC on 2020-06-15 - Piotr Nowojski joined the PMC on 2020-06-15 - Dian Fu joined the PMC on 2020-08-27 New committers since previous report: - Benchao Li was added as committer on 2020-06-08 - David Anderson was added as committer on 2020-08-08 - Yun Tang was added as committer on 2020-09-07 - Igal Shilman was added as committer on 2020-09-07 The newest PMC member is Dian Fu, joined on August 27th, 2020. The newest committer is Igal Shilman, joined on September 7th, 2020. There are currently 62 committers and 32 PMC members in this project. ## Releases The following releases were made since the last board report: - 1.10.2 was released on 2020-08-25. - 1.11.0 was released on 2020-07-07. - 1.11.1 was released on 2020-07-22. ## Project Activity: - The Flink community is proud that Flink continues to be among the most active projects in the ASF. As per the FY 2020 Annual Report, Flink had the #1 most active dev@ mailing list (excluding builds, commits, and issue updates which go to separate lists) and the #2 most active user@ list, despite a growing second user mailing list (user-zh@). - The big 1.11.0 release went out in July, and a follow-up patch release since then as well. It included a lot of improvements, like a major update to Flink's checkpoint mechanism, support for change-data-capture streams, deeper Hadoop/Hive integration, better support for common Python libraries for Python users. - For the 1.12.0 release, the community has discussed the feature freeze to be end of October. The major release cycle is implicitly becoming a bit longer than it used to be, which seems a natural result due to the growth of the project, community, and issues going into releases. - The Stateful Functions project is heading for the 2.2 release, probably in the next two weeks, with several usability and stability improvements. - There will be a Virtual Flink Forward Community Conference, October 21-22. The main event is free for all. https://www.flink-forward.org/global-2020/conference-program ## Community Health: After a very busy spring season, the summer season is slightly slower: - About 20 new major feature proposals (FLIPs = Flink Improvement Proposals) - user@f.a.o is roughly stable (2266 mails/quarter) - user-zh@f.a.o almost doubled (3359 mails/quarter) - dev@f.a.o is 25% slower (2340 mails/quarter) Similarly, Jira activity is at 50% of last quarter; - 876 JIRA tickets created, - 782 JIRA tickets closed This is probably explained by the very big 1.11 release to which the community was gearing up in the last quarter, while this quarter didn't yet see the very active phase leading to the next release (1.12 feature freeze is still two months away).
## Description: Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java, Scala, Python, and libraries for various use cases. Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Calcite, Hadoop, Mesos, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, and various others. ## Issues: - There are currently no community issues that require board attention. ## Membership Data: PMC changes since previous report: - Dawid Wysakowicz joined PMC on 2020-03-23 - Zhijiang Wang joined the PMC on 2020-03-27 - Hequn Cheng joined the PMC on 2020-04-16 New committers since previous report: - Konstantin Knauf was added as committer on 2020-04-01 - Seth Wiesman was added as committer on 2020-04-07 - Xintong Song was added as committer on 2020-06-01 - Benchao Li was added as committer on 2020-06-08 The newest PMC member is Hequn Cheng, joined on April 16th, 2020. The newest committer is Benchao Li, joined on June 8th, 2020. There are currently 59 committers and 29 PMC members in this project. ## Releases The following releases were made since the last board report: - Apache Flink 1.9.3 was released on 2020-04-26. - Apache Flink 1.10.1 was released on 2020-05-12. - Stateful Functions (StateFun) 2.0 was released on 2020-04-07. - Stateful Functions (StateFun) 2.1 was released on 2020-06-09. - Flink-shaded 11.0 was released on 2020-05-29. ## Project Activity: - The community is currently finalizing the 1.11.0 release, the first release candidate has been published. Besides the common usability improvements and hardening, the release brings a major update to Flink's checkpoint mechanism, supports better handling of change-data-capture streams, integrates streaming data with Hadoop/Hive, adds better support for common libraries for Python users, and more. - The contributed Stateful Functions project has now undergone two releases as part of Apache Flink, meaning the integration has been successfully completed. - The Flink Forward San Francisco conference took place as an open virtual event due to the COVID-19 situation. While this worked well for the part of knowledge and experience sharing, the feedback from many committers was that they prefer an in-person event once it becomes feasible again. - For the same reason as above, the next Flink Forward conference (taking place in late October) will be again a virtual event, open and free to everyone. - There is a request to use the Apache Flink brand for a fan page. The PMC is handling the discussion. The main point is how to strike a good trade-off between making it clear that this is not an official website of the Apache Flink project, and making it recognizable at first glance that this website is about Flink. - The Flink community migrated most of the CI infrastructure to a sponsored Azure Pipelines account. That reduced Flink's usage of ASF Travis resources significantly. The remaining ASF Travis CI use will probably be phased out incrementally along with older releases that still rely on the Travis setup. - The community published its first CVE based on a third-party report and fix. We found the process to be well documented. - There is an ongoing discussion in the community about adding more localized contents, triggered by the contribution of a Japanese translation of (parts of) the website. At this point, the conclusion was that we need to first invest into better tooling before being able to handle more versions of the documentation (website being a bit easier, because it is less frequently updated). ## Community Health: The Flink community is proud that Flink continues to be among the most active projects in the ASF. - user@f.a.o (2452 mails/quarter) - user-zh@f.a.o (1930 mails/quarter) - dev@f.a.o (3914 mails/quarter) JIRA continues to be very active as well, 1622 JIRA tickets created, 1351 JIRA tickets closed in the last 3 months.
## Description:
Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming
data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains
functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java, Scala, Python, and
libraries for various use cases.
Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader
ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Calcite,
Hadoop, Mesos, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, and various others.
## Issues:
- There are no community issues that require board attention.
## Membership Data:
No new PMC members were added since the last report.
Committers added since the last board report:
- Yu Li was added as committer on January 7th, 2020
- Dian Fu was added as committer on January 17th, 2020
- Jingsong Lee was added as committer on February 2nd, 2020
The newest PMC member is Jark Wu, joined on November 8th, 2019.
The newest committer is Jingsong Lee, joined on February 2nd, 2020.
There are currently 55 committers and 26 PMC members in this project.
## Releases
The following releases were made since the last board report:
- Flink 1.9.2 was released on January 31st, 2020.
- Flink 1.10.0 was released on February 11th, 2020.
- Flink Shaded 10.0 (vendored libraries) was released on February 17th, 2020
## Project Activity:
- The community has released Flink 1.10, a big release with many features,
notably easier memory configuration, Python functions, an active Kubernetes
integration, integration with Hive and fulls TPC-DS coverage in SQL.
- The ASF has registered Flink as a trademark for the EU and China regions
now. Flink was already registered as a trademark in the US.
- The contributed Stateful Functions project is on its way to its first
release under its new home in the Flink community. Code and documentation
has been successfully migrated, discussions are ongoing about updating
the presentation of the website to better reflect the Flink project's
evolution.
- The Flink Forward community conference has been canceled due to
the Covid-19 outbreak, and the organizers are exploring options to
have an online event instead.
- Discussions about the 1.11 release have been started by the designated
release managers.
- The community is exploring a "developer blog" to better exchange
information about internals of the system and project between contributors,
that might not be very relevant or interesting to most users.
## Community Health:
The mailing list activity remains stable on a high level.
- user@f.a.o (2027 mails/quarter)
- user-zh@f.a.o (706 mails/quarter)
- dev@f.a.o (2997 mails/quarter)
JIRA continues to be very active as well, 1315 JIRA tickets created,
843 JIRA tickets closed in the last 3 months.
## Description: Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java, Scala, Python, and libraries for various use cases. Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Calcite, Hadoop, Mesos, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, and various others. ## Issues: - There are no community issues that require board attention. ## Membership Data: PMC members added since the last board report: - Jark Wu joined the PMC on November 8th, 2019 - Becket Qin joined the PMC on October 21st, 2019 Committers added since the last board report: - Zhu Zhu was added as committer on December 17th, 2019 The newest PMC member is Jark Wu, joined on November 8th, 2019. The newest committer is Zhu Zhu, joined on December 17th, 2019. Flink currently has 52 committers and 26 PMC members. ## Releases The following releases were made since the last board report: - 1.8.3 was released on December 12th, 2019. - 1.9.1 was released on October 18th, 2019. - shaded-9.0 was released on November 23rd, 2019. ## Project Activity: - The community has frozen the feature set for the 1.10 release and is now in the testing and validation phase. The release adds various enhancements to the runtime (easier memory configuration and threading model) and many enhancements to the "batch on streaming" capabilities of Flink, including the Table API/SQL and integrations with the SQL/Hive ecosystem. - There is an ongoing discussion how to better handle the use of the Apache Flink name in China, where there is a large community. The ASF does not have the trademark for Flink in China. The suggestion from Apache trademarks is that the PMC does outreach and education for now, and not push for a trademark registration process at the moment. - The PMC voted to start an WeChat account for Flink that is managed by the PMC. Similar to the @ApacheFlink Twitter account, this channel would be used for various types of Flink news and to publicize interesting mentionings of Flink from users and contributors. - The Flink community voted to accept the "Stateful Functions" project as contribution. https://statefun.io/ Stateful Functions is a library built on Apache Flink to support new use cases that are not easily mappable to the existing APIs, but more of a match distributed actor frameworks. The library was already open source and Apache 2 licensed. - The community is exploring to migrate the CI service fully away from Travis CI. Currently Pull Requests are tested through a separately-paid Travis subscription to take load off the ASF-paid account/budget, which is only used to test the master branch. The goal is to have everything in Azure Pipelines, which offers better tools as well as the opportunity to hook in external build servers that Alibaba is offering to sponsor. We hope that this both simplifies Flink's build setup, as well as reduces feedback times on Pull Requests significantly. - The next Flink Forward community conference will be in San Francisco on March 23rd-25th. There is a public call for presentations: https://www.flink-forward.org/sf-2020/call-for-presentations Apache committers can contact the organizers for a free pass. ## Community Health: After a big increase in activity in the previous quarter, the mailing list activity seems to be stable now. - user@f.a.o (1730 mails/quarter) - user-zh@f.a.o (570 mails/quarter) - dev@f.a.o (3057 mails/quarter) JIRA continues to be active as well, 1096 JIRA tickets created, 833 JIRA tickets resolved in the last 3 months.
## Description: Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java, Scala, Python, and libraries for various use cases. Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Calcite, Hadoop, Mesos, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, and various others. ## Issues: - There are no issues that require board attention. ## Membership Data: PMC members added since the last board report: - Jincheng Sun joined the PMC on June 24th, 2019 - Kurt Young joined the PMC on July 23rd, 2019 - Kostas Kloudas joined the PMC on August 31st, 2019 Committers added since the last board report: - Rong Rong was added as committer on July 15th, 2019 - Becket Qin was added as committer on July 18th, 2019 - Zhijiang Wang was added as committer on July 22nd, 2019 - Hequn Cheng was added as committer on August 5th, 2019 - Andrey Zagrebin was added as committer on August 17th, 2019 - Zili Chen was added as committer on September 12th, 2019 The newest PMC member is Kostas Kloudas, joined on August 31st, 2019. The newest committer is Zili Chen, joined on September 12th, 2019. Flink currently has 51 committers and 24 PMC members. ## Releases The following releases were made since the last board report: - 1.8.1 was released on July 7th, 2019. - 1.8.2 was released on September 11th, 2019 - 1.9.0 was released on August 22nd, 2019. - shaded-8.0 was released on August 8th, 2019. ## Project Activity: - The community is in a strong growth phase. The past quarter saw the addition of six new committers and three new PMC members to help support the community growth. - The Flink community passed its first set of bylaws to more formally define how decisions are made for various types of contributions. The community felt that with growing size of active committer base and with the different backgrounds and experiences of the committers, bylaws will be helpful to keep the project organized. - Parts of the bylaws discussion resulted also in reinforcing the process for new features (FLIPs - Flink Improvement Proposals), which resulted in a big number of new proposals and high activity on their discussion threads. - Also for smaller contributions, the community is pushing more for early discussions and checking whether there is capacity among committer to shepherd proposed changes. - The community is periodically summing up the ongoing development threads on the roadmap page: https://flink.apache.org/roadmap.html - The community started working on the Flink 1.10 release. The release will continue many of the threads started for 1.9, like the Table API, SQL engine, integration with Hive, support for Python. Other threads include, for example, a new streaming state backend, sources, as well as making configuration and resource management simpler. - Flink Forward Berlin will be on October 7-9. The program is online: https://europe-2019.flink-forward.org/speakers Apache committers can contact the organizers for a free pass. ## Community Health: Mailing lists continue to be very active: - user@f.a.o (1767 mails/quarter) - user-zh@f.a.o (714 mails/quarter) - dev@f.a.o (3543 mails/quarter) The dev mailing list saw a big increase in activity due to feature and design discussions for the 1.10 release and the reinforced community processes. The user-zh mailing list seems to be building momentum as well and more than doubled in the last quarter. JIRA continues to be active as well, 1212 JIRA tickets created, 910 JIRA tickets resolved in the last 3 months.
DESCRIPTION
Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming
data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains
functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala and libraries
for various use cases.
Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader
ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Calcite, Hadoop,
Mesos, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, and various others.
ISSUES
- There are no issues that require board attention.
STATUS AND ACTIVITY
- The work on improving community aspects is still ongoing. There is work in
reorganizing the contribution process to encourage more early discussions,
rather than immediately opening pull requests.
- There are now more regular discussions on the private mailing list about
committer and PMC candidates now. The project is adding PMC members and
committers more regularly now. Actively reaching out and mentoring new
candidate needs more follow-up work by the PMC.
- The integration of the contributed Blink fork is ongoing. A good part of
it will be included in the next Flink release (1.9).
- The community working on the Flink 1.9 release. The release has among
other things a complete overhaul of the Table API, a new SQL/Table query
processor based on the Blink contribution, a new scheduler architecture
and failover mechanics for batch/bounded programs. The release also
introduces a first version of Python Table API.
- Flink Forward San Francisco took place on April 1-2 with many Flink
committers and contributors attending. The call for participation for
Flink Forward Berlin just closed, the organizers plan to offer free passes
again for Flink committers.
COMMUNITY
PMC members added since the last board report:
- Shaoxuan Wang joined the PMC on May 15th, 2019
Committers added since the last board report;
- Bowen Li was added as a committer on April 22nd, 2019
- Xiaowei Jiang was added as a committer on April 1st, 2019.
The newest PMC member is Shaoxuan Wang, joined on May 15th, 2019. The newest
committer is Bowen Li, joined on April 22nd, 2019.
Flink currently has 45 committers and 21 PMC members.
RELEASES
The following releases were made since the last board report:
- 1.8.0 was released on April 9th, 2019
- shaded-7.0 was released on May 30th, 2019
ACTIVITY ON JIRA / MAILING LISTS
Mailing lists continue to be very active:
- user@f.a.o (1634 mails/quarter)
- dev@f.a.o (1672 mails/quarter)
JIRA continues to be active as well, 918 JIRA tickets created, 624 JIRA
tickets resolved in the last 3 months.
DESCRIPTION
Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming
data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains
functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala and libraries
for various use cases.
Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader
ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Calcite,
Hadoop, Mesos, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, and various others.
ISSUES
- There are no issues that require board attention.
STATUS AND ACTIVITY
- The Flink community is trying to improve many community aspects in
the last months, resulting in a lot of discussions and efforts.
- Inspired by the effort from the Apache Beam project, the Flink PMC
is looking to have a monthly discussion on promising candidates
for committers and PMC and actively reach out. There are already
healthy discussions about PMC and committer growth.
- The community added a Chinese language user@flink mailing list for
user-to-user questions and support. Since its creation six weeks ago,
the list has already gathered 300 subscribers.
Design discussions and decisions still happen on the dev mailing list.
- The trademark issue with the https://flink-china.org website (mainly a
translation of the official Flink website) was resolved by convincing
the maintainers to contribute the contents to the Apache website.
The Flink website is now dual-language (Chinese version under
https://flink.apache.org/zh/).
The https://flink-china.org is currently online, with a disclaimer that
it is being contributed and to the official Flink website and will then
be shut down.
- Alibaba has contributed the code of their internal Flink fork 'Blink' back
to the open source project. The code is available in a separate branch,
the community is working on merging selected parts into the mainline.
- The community published a roadmap for the project, which sums up the
active Flink Improvement Proposals (FLIPs) and JIRA issues to give
users and contributors an easily digestible overview of all the ongoing
efforts.
- There are several discussion threads on how to improve the experience of
contributing to Flink and keeping up with a large number of contributions.
Current efforts include a better organization of JIRA components,
a more transparent review process, and some automation through a pull
request bot. In addition, we are thinking about component-specific guides
and test frameworks, for example for connectors.
- The community is in the process of releasing Flink 1.8. The release
contains some new user-facing features plus a lot of internal cleanup
and refactoring, fixing some long term issues, and preparing the work
on a deeper integration of batch and stream processing in the runtime.
- Program for Flink Forward San Francisco is online:
https://sf-2019.flink-forward.org/conference-program
Flink committers can get a free pass, and there are a discount codes for
other Apache committers.
COMMUNITY
PMC members added since the last board report:
- Thomas Weise joined the PMC on February 12th, 2019
No new committers were added since the last board report.
The newest PMC member is Thomas Weise, joined on February 12th, 2019.
The newest committer is Jamie Grier, joined on December 17th, 2018.
Flink currently has 43 committers and 20 PMC members.
RELEASES
The following releases were made since the last board report:
- 1.6.3 was released on December 21st, 2018
- 1.6.4 was released on February 22nd, 2019
- 1.7.1 was released on December 20th, 2018
- 1.7.2 was released on February 14th, 2019
- shaded-6.0 was released on February 12th, 2019
ACTIVITY ON JIRA / MAILING LISTS
Mailing lists continue to be very active:
- user@f.a.o (1737 mails/quarter)
- dev@f.a.o (1963 mails/quarter)
JIRA continues to be active as well, 767 JIRA tickets created, 836 JIRA
tickets resolved in the last 3 months.
DESCRIPTION
Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming
data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains
functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala and libraries
for various use cases.
Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader
ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Calcite,
Hadoop, Mesos, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, and various others.
ISSUES
- There are no issues that require board attention.
STATUS AND ACTIVITY
- The Flink community has released the 1.7 release, with features such
as support for Scala 2.12, enhancements to Streaming SQL, Complex Event
processing, AWS S3, connectors, and recovery.
- The project has entered a phase of many discussions about breaking
changes and consolidation of batch and streaming APIs to fix some
shortcomings and technical complexity, due to the way the project evolved
organically over time.
- In the area of Streaming SQL, there is a fruitful collaboration with the
Apache Calcite project, which resulted for example in new streaming joins
and an integration of complex event processing and SQL.
- The program for the Flink Forward Beijing conference is available. Aside
from tech talks, there will be a keynote by Craig Russell about the ASF
and how to contribute to Apache projects.
COMMUNITY
No new PMC members were added since the last report.
The newest PMC member is Chesnay Schepler, joined on July 26th, 2017
Committers added since the last board report:
- Thomas Weise was added as a committer on November 21st, 2018
- Jamie Grier was added as a committer on December 13th, 2018
Flink currently has 43 committers and 19 PMC members.
RELEASES
The following releases were made since the last board report:
- 1.5.4 was released on September 20th, 2018
- 1.5.5 was released on October 29th, 2018
- 1.6.1 was released on September 20th, 2018
- 1.6.2 was released on October 29th, 2018
- 1.7.0 was released on November 30th, 2018
ACTIVITY ON JIRA / MAILING LISTS
Mailing lists continue to be very active:
- user@f.a.o (2239 mails/quarter)
- dev@f.a.o (1825 mails/quarter)
JIRA continues to be active as well, 807 JIRA tickets created, 569 JIRA
tickets resolved in the last 3 months.
DESCRIPTION
Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming
data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains
functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala and libraries
for various use cases.
Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader
ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam,
Hadoop, Mesos, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, and various others.
ISSUES
- There are no issues that require board attention.
STATUS AND ACTIVITY
- The Flink community has released the 1.6 release, with enhancements
to Streaming SQL, connectors, container-based deployment, and more.
- The investment in more automated release testing seems to pay off. The
community is releasing bugfix releases faster and more frequently.
- The Flink Forward Berlin conference took place earlier in September April
bringing together many community members. Talks were a mix of use cases,
tech deep dive, ecosystem, and (for the first time) stream processing
research topics.
- Two more Flink Forward conferences have been announced: In Beijing on
December 20-21, 2018, and in San Francisco on April 1-2, 2019.
COMMUNITY
No new PMC members were added since the last report.
The newest PMC member is Chesnay Schepler, joined on July 26th, 2017
Committers added since the last board report:
- Sihua Zhou was added as a committer on June 23rd, 2018
- Piotr Nowojski was added as a committer on June 27th, 2018
- Gary Yao was added as a committer on September 9th, 2018
Flink currently has 41 committers and 19 PMC members.
RELEASES
The following releases were made since the last board report:
- 1.5.1 was released on July 12th, 2018
- 1.5.2 was released on July 31st, 2018
- 1.5.3 was released on August 21st, 2018
- 1.6.0 was released on August 9th, 2018
ACTIVITY ON JIRA / MAILING LISTS
Mailing lists continue to be very active and steadily grow in traffic:
- user@f.a.o (2376 mails/quarter)
- dev@f.a.o (1413 mails/quarter)
JIRA continues to be active as well, 740 JIRA tickets created, 565 JIRA
tickets resolved in the last 3 months .
DESCRIPTION Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala and libraries for various use cases. Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Hadoop, Mesos, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, and various others. ISSUES - There are no issues that require board attention. STATUS AND ACTIVITY - The Flink community has released the 1.5 release, with major changes to the deployment model, network stack, recovery, and more. - Community has invested a lot of time into automating release testing, to be able to switch to a more strict time-based release model. - Work towards the next version (1.6) has started, a discussion about parts of the feature set is still ongoing on the mailing lists. - The Flink Forward San Francisco conference took place in April, with a mix of committers, contributors, users, and explorers. The call for presentations for the next Flink Forward conference in Berlin (September 3rd-5th) is open. COMMUNITY No new PMC members were added since the last report. The newest PMC member is Chesnay Schepler, joined on July 26th, 2017 Committers added since the last board report: - Nico Kruber was added as a committer on May 10th, 2018 - Xingcan Cui was added as a committer on May 10th, 2018 - Shuyi Chen was added as a committer on June 5th, 2018 Flink currently has 38 committers and 19 PMC members. RELEASES The following releases were made since the last board report: - 1.5.0 was released on May 25th, 2018 - shaded-4.0 (auxiliary project) was released on June 6th, 2018 ACTIVITY ON JIRA / MAILING LISTS The Flink community is proud to continues to be in the top 10 active mailing lists in Apache: - user@f.a.o (1847 mails/quarter) - dev@f.a.o (1285 mails/quarter) JIRA continues to be active as well, 653 JIRA tickets created, 589 JIRA tickets resolved in the last 3 months .
DESCRIPTION Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala and libraries for various use cases. Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Hadoop, Mesos, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, and various others. ISSUES - There are no issues that require board attention. STATUS AND ACTIVITY - The Flink community is in the final phase of the 1.5 release, with the release branch being forked and final tests and bug fixes happening. - The 1.5 release marks a major rework of Flink, to make its design more natural for idiomatic use with containers (specifically Kubernetes) and more dynamic resource environments, but at the same time retain the current integration with Yarn, Mesos, and standalone setups. Aside from that, the release improves latency, checkpoints, recovery time, and extends streaming SQL and the DataStream API, among other things. - The Flink Forward San Francisco conference will happen in three weeks. Flink committers were offered a free pass. The program can be found under https://sf-2018.flink-forward.org/conference/ - Concerning the note in the previous board report, the Huawei CloudStream website now uses Apache Flink, rather than only Flink (accessed March 15th) https://www.huaweicloud.com/en-us/product/cs.html COMMUNITY No new PMC members were added since the last report. The newest PMC member is Chesnay Schepler, joined on July 26th, 2017 Committers added since the last board report: - Eron Wright was added as a committer on January 17th, 2018 Flink currently has 35 committers and 19 PMC members. RELEASES The following releases were made since the last board report: - 1.4.1 was released on February 15th, 2018 - 1.4.2 was released on March 8th, 2018 - 1.3.3 was released on March 15th, 2018 - shaded-3.0 was released on February 28th, 2018 ACTIVITY ON JIRA / MAILING LISTS The Flink community was very proud to be in the top 10 active mailing lists in Apache :-) user@f.a.o (1817 mails/quarter) and dev@f.a.o (1154 mails/quarter) As the community pushes towards the 1.5 release, JIRA continues to be very active, with 688 JIRA tickets created and 672 JIRA tickets resolved over last 3 months.
DESCRIPTION
Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming
data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains
functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala and libraries
for various use cases.
Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader
ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam,
Hadoop, Mesos, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, and various others.
ISSUES
- There are no issues that require board attention.
STATUS AND ACTIVITY
- The Flink community just released the 1.4 release and is
now working towards the 1.5 release. The relationship between
the releases and a list of major features has been has been
discussed and is shared on the Apache Flink blog:
http://flink.apache.org/news/2017/11/22/release-1.4-and-1.5-timeline.html
- The call for papers for the Flink Forward conference is open.
The program committee consists of stream processing experts from
both the Flink community and other communities.
- Flink had a pretty good conference presence in the previous
quarter, for example at multiple Stratas, Hadoop/Dataworks Summit,
MesosCon, QCon, Scale-by-the-Bay, and Flink Forward Berlin.
- We reached out to Huawei to update the use of "Flink" on their stream
product website to "Apache Flink". The original Chinese webpage was fixed,
but has been taken down and replaced by other web pages, including an
English one that uses the original text saying "Flink", not "Apache Flink".
We are in touch.
COMMUNITY
No new PMC members were added since the last report.
The newest PMC member is Chesnay Schepler, joined on July 26th, 2017
Committers added since the last board report:
- Haohui Mai was added as a committer on November 1st, 2017
Flink currently has 34 committers and 19 PMC members.
RELEASES
The following releases were made since the last board report:
- 1.4.0 was released on December 12th, 2017
- shaded-2.0 was released on October 30th, 2017
ACTIVITY ON JIRA / MAILING LISTS
Both user@f.a.o and dev@f.a.o lists are very active,
(1818 resp. 977 mails per quarter), with mails getting
answered by a mix of committers and non-committers.
JIRA continues to be very active, with 636 JIRA tickets created
and 607 JIRA tickets resolved over last 3 months.
DESCRIPTION Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala and libraries for various use cases. Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Hadoop, Mesos, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, and various others. ISSUES - There are no issues that require board attention. STATUS AND ACTIVITY - The Flink community is heading towards the 1.4 release. Big threads in the current development are for example a major improvement to the deployment interoperability and elasticity, connectors, dependency management, Stream SQL. - The Flink community is reorganizing the project repository and dependencies, to make the life of users easier with respect to dependency conflicts. We created the "flink-shaded" repository in which we create shaded versions of several dependencies, relocated to a different namespace. That repository contains at this point no code, only build files. - The Flink Forward Berlin conference took place on September 11-13 with about 350 participants, representing a mixture of committers, contributors, production users, exploring users, stream processing enthusiasts, and researchers from academia. - Data Artisans announced that they plan to organise two more Flink Forward conferences next year, similar to this year: One in San Francisco in April, one in Berlin in September. - Since the last board report, two companies publicly annouced hosted managed Flink services: Eventador (http://eventador.io/) and Huawei (http://www.hwclouds.com/product/stream.html). We are in touch with the later one to update their mentioning of "Flink" to "Apache Flink". COMMUNITY PMC members added since last report: - Tzu-Li Tai was added as a PMC member on July 6th, 2017 - Chesnay Schepler was added as a PMC member on July 26th, 2017 Committers added since the last board report: - Jincheng Sun was added as a committer on July 10th, 2017 Flink currently has 33 committers and 19 PMC members. RELEASES The following releases were made since the last board report: - 1.3.1 was released on June 22nd, 2017 - 1.3.2 was released on August 5th, 2017 - shaded-1.0 was released on July 27th, 2017 ACTIVITY ON JIRA / MAILING LISTS Both user@f.a.o and dev@f.a.o lists are very active, with mails getting answered by a mix of committers and non-committers. JIRA continues to be very active (699 JIRA tickets created, 538 JIRA tickets resolved over last 3 months)
DESCRIPTION Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala and libraries for various use cases. Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Hadoop, Mesos, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, and various others. ISSUES - There are no issues that require board attention. STATUS AND ACTIVITY - Flink is in a healthy phase of growing the committer base to handle the increased activity in various components. Since the beginning of the year, eight new committers were added. - The first time-based release happened with 1.3.0, and the feedback from users and committers was positive. - The discussion about modularization and possible changes to the build and testing setups continues, to address the very long build/test times. No conclusion has been reached so far. A significant build-time reduction would require big changes to the build setups (like organizing Flink into various sub-repositories) and there are concerns about the added complexity for users and contributors that such a setup brings. - There will be another instance of the Flink Forward conference in Berlin in September this year: http://berlin.flink-forward.org The program committee consists of a mix of Flink community members and stream processing experts from other stream and event-processing communities. The call for participation is currently happening. - The Flink Forward San Francisco conference happened in April, with Apache Flink training, user talks, committer talks, and a "how to participate in the community" tutorial. In addition, there were presentations about Flink at Apache Con, Kafka Summit, Dataworks Summit, Strata, Mesos Con, J on the Beach, and several other conferences. - Voting on bugfix release 1.3.1 is in progress at the time of writing this report. COMMUNITY PMC members added since last report: - Greg Hogan was added as a PMC member on March 13th, 2017. Committers added since the last board report: - Theodore Vasiloudis was added as a committer on March 21st, 2017 - Xiaogang Shi was added as a committer on May 21st, 2017 - Dawid Wysakowicz was added as a committer on June 14th, 2017 - Shaoxuan Wang was voted in as a committer on June 15th, 2017 Flink currently has 32 committers and 17 PMC members. RELEASES The following releases were made since the last board report: - 1.1.5 was released on March, 22nd, 2017 - 1.2.1 was released on April 25th, 2017 - 1.3.0 was released on May 31st, 2017 ACTIVITY ON JIRA / MAILING LISTS Both user@f.a.o and dev@f.a.o lists are very active, with mails getting answered by a mix of committers and non-committers. JIRA continues to be very active (824 JIRA tickets created, 622 JIRA tickets over last 3 months)
DESCRIPTION Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala and libraries for various use cases. Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam (incubating), Hadoop, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, and others. ISSUES - There are no issues that require board attention. STATUS AND ACTIVITY - The project continues to have quite a high activity, with many contributions both for complex long-term features, and small usability- and bug fixes. We are growing the committer base in order to keep up with the contributions. - While additional committers are helping in many of the user-facing components, there are still some more low-level components where expertise naturally takes a bit longer to spread. The committers keep working with more contributors on those parts to help with that. - The PMC is currently in progress of adding another member. The vote has passed, currently waiting for the board notice period before extending the invitation. - After the previous release, the community discussed and decided to switch to a strictly time-based release policy. That makes it more predictable for both users and contributors. The initial interval was decided to be 4 months, which would mark the next release at mid May. - The community has started to gather issues for the bugfix releases 1.2.1 and probably 1.1.5 - There has been a long discussion (not fully concluded) how to make it easier to working on Flink libraries (Graph Processing, Complex Event Processing, Machine Learning). Some issues are teh large code base and the increasingly long build times. Other discussions are how to foster activity in those specific components. - The Program for the upcoming Flink Forward conference in San Francisco has been announced. There will be talks by users and committers about use cases, technology, community participation, and ecosystem integration. - Aside from the talks at Flink Forward, there will be presentations about Flink at Strata, Dataworks Summit, Kafka Summit, and other conferences. - The results from a Flink survey by data Artisans have been shared in a two part blog post. The link to the results was was shared over the user/dev mailing lists. COMMUNITY We are in the process of adding a new PMC member. The latest PMC addition was July 2nd, 2015 (Maximilian Michels) Committers added since the last board report: - Kostas Kloudas was added as a committer on February, 5th, 2017 - Jark Wu was added as a committer on February, 9th, 2017 - Stefan Richter was added as a committer on February 9th 2017 - Kurt Young was added as a committer on February 21st, 2017 Flink currently has 28 committers and 16 PMC members. RELEASES The following releases were made since the last board report: - 1.1.4 was released on December, 21st, 2016 - 1.2.0 was released on February 2nd, 2017 ACTIVITY ON JIRA / MAILING LISTS Both user@f.a.o and dev@f.a.o lists are very active, with mails getting answered by a mix of committers and non-committers. JIRA continues to be very active (713 JIRA tickets created, 630 JIRA tickets over last 3 months)
DESCRIPTION
Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming
data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains
functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala and libraries
for various use cases.
Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader
ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam (incubating),
Hadoop, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, Bahir, and others.
ISSUES
- There are no issues that require board attention.
STATUS AND ACTIVITY
- The Flink community is heading towards the 1.2 release, which is the
biggest release so far. The community decided to add backwards
compatibility of "application state" from this release on (in addition
to API compatibility since version 1.0.0).
Releasing version 1.2 is also the blocker for merging a large feature
branch on resource management that many contributors have worked on
over the last months.
- The community is also in the progress of releasing the bug fix release
1.1.4. This release is the result of a major effort with large
production users to address robustness issues found in such
installations.
- There will be 'Flink Forward' conferences in San Francisco (April 2017)
and Berlin (September 2017). The PMC will be in touch with the organizers
to make sure the event is endorsed by the Flink community and respects
the Apache trademark guidelines.
- 'data Artisans' conducted a survey among Flink users and contributors,
with the goal to share the results with the community. The survey is
currently being evaluated, results to be shared soon.
- In the previous quarter, the Flink community started working together
with the Apache Bahir community. The first connectors are now exclusively
managed by the Bahir project, and not part of the Flink project any more.
- Several community members have started to voice concerns that the Flink
code base is getting very intensive to build and test. Individual
discussions in these threads suggested to kick of a proper discussion
after the 1.2 release is out.
COMMUNITY
There was no new PMC addition since the last report.
The latest PMC addition was July 2nd, 2015 (Maximilian Michels)
No new committers have been added since the last report.
The last committer addition was Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai on August, 26th, 2016.
Flink currently has 24 committers and 16 PMC members.
RELEASES
The following releases were made since the last board report:
→ 1.1.3 was released on October, 12th, 2016
ACTIVITY ON JIRA / MAILING LISTS
Both user@f.a.o and dev@f.a.o lists are quite active, with mails getting
answered by a mix of committers and non-committers.
JIRA is even more active than in the three month period before
(730 JIRA tickets created, 545 JIRA tickets resolved)
DESCRIPTION
Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming
data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains
functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala and libraries
for various use cases.
Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader
ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Hadoop, Kafka, HBase,
Cassandra.
ISSUES
- There are no issues that require board attention.
STATUS AND ACTIVITY
- The Flink community started working together with the Apache Bahir
community. Some of the streaming connectors from Flink are now maintained
under the Bahir umbrella. This allows for faster independent release
cycles and more lightweight processes to add new connectors.
We discussed as an alternative to create an independent subproject of
Flink, but the community favored to work with Bahir. The Bahir community
was very open to the idea and it looks like both committers and
contributors are quite happy with the result.
- The second edition of the "Flink Forward" conference took place in Berlin
from September 12th to 14th. It featured a series of talks about use
cases, applications, and in-depth technical discussions, as well as a
training session. About 350 people attended.
A good amount of Flink committers were at the conference as well and
participated with talks and discussions about various aspects of the
system.
- The community adopted the "Improvement Proposal" concept from the Kafka
community, under the name "FLIP" = "Flink Improvement Proposal", and uses
the Wiki for that.
Improvement proposals are proposed major changes with thorough design
docs. Once discussed and approved (via mailing list), they are usually
broken down into JIRA issues which are linked.
We found that this complements JIRA and the mailing lists, because (1)
there is one place where interested users and contributors can find an
overview of all major additions/changes that have been proposed and are
pending, and (2) the Wiki document sums up the final conceptual designs
nicely while JIRA tracks the implementation aspects.
- In the previous quarter, the Flink community introduces the concept of
"shepherds". Shepherds are experts/trackers of components, but have no
authoritative power.
The concept seems to not have discouraged anyone to look across component
boundaries, and occasionally, it has helped for threads to be picked up.
Overall, however, it has not been picked up as much as hoped for. Maybe it
will be picked up better over time (it might simply take a while until
everybody intuitively adopts such able concept). For now, it does not seem
to have any downsides.
COMMUNITY
There was no new PMC addition since the last report.
The latest PMC addition was July 2nd, 2015 (Maximilian Michels)
Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai was added as a committer on August, 26th, 2016.
Flink currently has 24 committers and 16 PMC members.
RELEASES
The following releases were made since the last board report:
- 1.1.0 was released on August, 4th, 2016
- 1.1.1 was released on August, 10th, 2016
- 1.1.2 was released on September, 5th, 2016
ACTIVITY ON JIRA / MAILING LISTS
Development speed is fast, we are seeing more thorough use of
JIRA, more fine grained issues, more discussion.
DESCRIPTION
Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming
data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains
functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala and libraries
for various use cases. Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache
projects in the broader ecosystem of technology around Apache Hadoop and
Apache Kafka.
ISSUES
- There are no issues that require board attention.
STATUS AND ACTIVITY
- Shane informed us that the "Apache Flink" trademark has been approved,
but still needs to be officially issued.
- Since the 1.0 release, the community growth seems to have accelerated.
- As a response, the community decided to promote a "shepherd" concept
within the community. Every component (like API, distributed runtime,
library, ...) has one or more shepherds, which are experts of that
component, and act as people to contact for issues and questions that
cannot be answered by the broad community.
We decided to go with the name "shepherd", rather than "maintainer",
because it is a non-authoritative role, but a guiding role.
Shepherds are mostly committers, but also some non-committers volunteered.
This looks like a nice way to identify prospects for future committers.
The shepherds should also feel responsible for driving/moderating (not
deciding) the resolution of community contributions.
We are still in the phase of trying this out, hope to be able to report
results in the next board report.
- There will be a conference on Apache Flink and Stream Processing in
September called "Flink Forward" (http://flink-forward.org/). The
organizers are in touch with the PMC. The program committee will be five
people from the Apache stream processing ecosystem.
- Flink has been integrated with more Apache projects, like BigTop (done by
the Flink and BigTop community) and Mahout (mostly done by the Mahout
community).
- Since the 1.0 release, the community brought measures in place to check
binary backwards compatibility.
- So far, the Flink community has accepted the majority of contributions,
such as for connectors for integration with external systems. We have,
however, seen quite a few times the contributors were not interested in
following up and maintaining the contribution, and a tough maintenance job
was imposed on the community for barely used and unfamiliar code.
As a results, there are discussions about encouraging contributors to
create individual independent projects for such connectors, if there are
no additional people in the community that would back the contribution.
COMMUNITY
There was no new PMC addition since the last report.
The latest PMC addition was July 2nd, 2015 (Maximilian Michels)
The latest committer addition was on March, 8th, 2016 (Greg Hogan)
Flink currently has 23 committers and 16 PMC members.
RELEASES
The following releases were made since the last board report:
- 1.0.1 was released on Tue Apr 05 2016
- 1.0.2 was released on Fri Apr 22 2016
- 1.0.3 was released on Wed May 11 2016
ACTIVITY ON JIRA / MAILING LISTS
Development speed continues to be healthy.
- 439 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 318 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Compared to previous quarters, dev mailing list activity is increasing
a bit, but user mailing list activity is increasing a lot.
- dev@flink.apache.org:
- 381 subscribers (up 58 in the last 3 months):
- 1396 emails sent to list (1176 in previous quarter)
- user@flink.apache.org:
- 533 subscribers (up 119 in the last 3 months):
- 2211 emails sent to list (1368 in previous quarter)
DESCRIPTION
Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming data
analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine.
Flink's stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in
Java and Scala and libraries for various use cases.
Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader
ecosystem of technology around Apache Hadoop and Apache Kafka.
ISSUES
- There are no issues that require board attention.
STATUS AND ACTIVITY
- The recent months where dominated by the efforts to release Flink 1.0, which
was officially announced by the ASF on March, 8th.
- The 1.0 release was themed around backwards compatibility, and operational
features. A complex event processing library was added as well.
- A roadmap for the first half of 2016 has been published by the community on
the mailing lists end of December.
- Flink seems to get a decent amount of interest, several upcoming conference
talks (e.g., Strata, Hadoop Summit, Kafka Summit, OSCon, ApacheCon, and
several Meetups)
- The latest release (1.0.0) saw slightly fewer contributors (64 people) than
the previous one (0.10.0 had 79 contributors), because some features and
contributions were held off / delayed in order to establish the 1.0
relevant tools (like compatibility checks).
COMMUNITY
- There was no new PMC addition since the last report.
The latest PMC addition was July 2nd, 2015 (Maximilian Michels)
- There were two committers added since the last report
- ChengXiang Li was added on January, 20th, 2016
- Greg Hogan was added on March, 8th, 2016
Flink currently has 23 committers and 16 PMC members
RELEASES
The following releases were made since the last board report:
- 0.10.2 was released on February, 10th, 2016
- 1.0.0 was released on March, 8th, 2016
ACTIVITY ON JIRA / MAILING LISTS
Development speed continues to be healthy.
- 440 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 374 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Compared to previous quarters, there is a bit of a shift in mailing list
activity from the dev list to the users list.
- dev@flink.apache.org:
- 323 subscribers (up 68 in the last 3 months):
- 1266 emails sent to list (1617 in previous quarter)
- user@flink.apache.org:
- 414 subscribers (up 97 in the last 3 months):
- 1528 emails sent to list (1225 in previous quarter)
- issues@flink.apache.org:
- 54 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
- 8794 emails sent to list (11290 in previous quarter)
DESCRIPTION
Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming data
analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine.
Flink's stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in
Java and Scala and libraries for various use cases.
Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader
ecosystem of technology around Hadoop.
ISSUES
- There are no issues that require board attention.
STATUS AND ACTIVITY
- The community has released version 0.10, which had a strong focus on
hardening the data streaming capabilities and adding major features like
master high availability.
- The community is actively working towards a version 1.0 and discussing which
APIs and components will be maintained backwards compatible.
- There was a 2 day conference on Flink on Berlin in October, with
community-selected talks, which had attracted around 250 participants.
- The Flink community is in a good growing phase. The latest release had
contributions from 79 people across many organizations.
COMMUNITY
- The newest PMC member was added July 2nd, 2015 (Maximilian Michels)
- The newest committer was added August 31st 2015 (Matthias J. Sax)
Flink currently has 21 committers and 16 PMC members
RELEASES
The following releases were made since the last board report:
- 0.10.1 was released on Thu Nov 26 2015
- 0.10.0 was released on Fri Nov 13 2015
ACTIVITY ON JIRA / MAILING LISTS
- 506 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 434 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
- dev@flink.apache.org:
- 249 subscribers (up 35 in the last 3 months):
- 1708 emails sent to list (1729 in previous quarter)
- news@flink.apache.org:
- 105 subscribers (up 18 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
- user@flink.apache.org:
- 308 subscribers (up 73 in the last 3 months):
- 1340 emails sent to list (1176 in previous quarter)
- issues@flink.apache.org:
- 42 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 12105 emails sent to list (10466 in previous quarter)
DESCRIPTION
Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming data
analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine.
Flink's stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in
Java and Scala and libraries for various use cases.
Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects, including
Hadoop (YARN, HDFS, MapReduce), Kafka, HBase, Zeppelin, MRQL, Tez, Orc,
HCatalog.
ISSUES
- There are no issues that require board attention.
STATUS AND ACTIVITY
- The community is working towards version 0.10, which contains several new
major features, like an overhaul of the streaming API, high availability.
The community aims to graduate the streaming API out of beta status and make
it stable.
- The question about a releasing version 1.0 has been brought up in the
community, as APIs and operational features mature.
- Flink is seeing an increasing number of users and contributors, and the
community is discussing ways to handle the load, make pull requests and
patches more efficient to review, and to guide contributors towards
making productive contributions. Current efforts include more precise
guidelines and automated QA technology.
- Interest in Flink is growing, we are seeing more and more meetup groups
springing up, as well as a 2-day conference on Flink in October in Berlin.
- The community is looking to diversify the technical expertise.
Right now, most people contribute to libraries, APIs, tools, integration.
We would like to get more people knowledgeable about the core. Efforts in
talks and documentation are currently happening.
COMMUNITY
- The project has one new PMC member since the last report
(Maximilian Michels was added July 2nd, 2015)
- The project has 4 new committers since the last board report
- Andra Lungu was added as a committer on June 08th, 2015
(voted in before last report, accepted and added since)
- Chiwan Park was added as a committer on June 22 2015
- Chesnay Schepler was added as a committer on Tue, August 11th, 2015
- Matthias J. Sax was added as a committer on Mon, August 31st 2015
- Flink currently has 21 committers and 16 PMC members
RELEASES
The following releases were made since the last board report
- 0.9.0 was released on June 24th, 2015
- 0.9.1 was released on August 31st, 2015
MAILING LISTS
- dev@flink.apache.org:
- 214 subscribers (up 40 in the last 3 months):
- 1661 emails sent to list (1956 in previous quarter)
- user@flink.apache.org:
- 233 subscribers (up 74 in the last 3 months):
- 1183 emails sent to list (756 in previous quarter)
- issues@flink.apache.org:
- 40 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 10271 emails sent to list (8179 in previous quarter)
JIRA ACTIVITY
- 446 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 350 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
DESCRIPTION Flink is a distributed data analytics system for batch and streaming data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala and libraries for various use cases. Flink is a citizen of the Hadoop ecosystem and interacts with HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, HBase, and Tez. ISSUES There are no issues that require board attention. STATUS The Flink community is preparing the release of version 0.9, which marks the biggest additions to Flink since the project creation. The system is adding strong functionality for stream processing and libraries for various use cases. Flink has integrated with various other Apache projects (Tez, Zeppelin, Samoa). The community is growing, we see increasingly articles and meetups on Flink appearing. COMMUNITY * Last committer was voted in May 30th, 2015 (Andra Lungu) * Vote to add Chiwan Park as committer is happening as of writing this report. * Last PMC member was added December 17, 2014, when all committers and a subset of the mentors formed the project Flink PMC during graduation. * Project has currently 18 committers and 15 PMC members. * The project community is active (May: 274 messages in user mailing list, 491 messages in dev mailing list, 2758 messages in issues mailing list) * JIRA reports 194 new issues and 152 solved issues in the last 30 days COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES * Growing the user community further via talks and meetups and integration with other projects. The Flink PMC plans to organize a track at the Apache Big Data conference. * Integration with other Apache projects is continuously happening: - Apache Zeppelin (incubating) has added support for Flink - Apache Samoa (incubating) integration is a pending patch - Apache Tez integration is part of the next release. - Integration with ORC and HCatalogue are work in progress. RELEASES * Date of last release: April 13th, 2015 (version 0.9.0-milestone-1) * Release candidate creation for 0.9.0 is happening as of writing this report.
DESCRIPTION Flink is a distributed data analytics system for expressive, declarative, and efficient batch and streaming data processing and analysis. Flink's stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala, a type analysis and serialization framework, a library of out-of-core enabled operators, distributed task scheduling, and a data streaming network subsystem. Flink is a citizen of the Hadoop ecosystem and interacts with HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, HBase, and Tez. ISSUES There are no issues that require board attention. STATUS The Flink community is working towards to next version (0.9) which builds Flink into a proper hybrid batch/streaming system with hardened guarantees. The community is growing, we see increased interest in contributions from companies that were not previously involved with Flink. COMMUNITY * Last committer was voted in March 5th, 2015 (Paris Carbone) * Last PMC member was added December 17, 2014, when all committers and a subset of the mentors formed the project Flink PMC during graduation. * Project has currently 17 committers and 15 PMC members. * The project community is active (February: 123 messages in user mailing list, 545 messages in dev mailing list, 1980 messages in issues mailing list) * JIRA reports 185 new issues and 120 solved issues in the last 30 days COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES * Growing the user community further. The community will give talks at various meetups and conferences, including Hadoop Summit, Strata, ApacheCon. * Integration with other Apache projects is work in progress. Patches that integrate Flink with Tez and SAMOA are available. RELEASES * Date of last release: February 19th, 2015 (version 0.8.1)
DESCRIPTION Flink is a distributed Big Data system for expressive, declarative, and efficient batch and streaming data processing and analysis. Flink’s stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala, a type analysis and serialization framework, a library of out-of-core enabled operators, distributed task scheduling, and a data streaming network subsystem. Flink is a citizen of the Hadoop ecosystem and interacts with HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, HBase, and Tez. ISSUES There are no issues that require board attention. STATUS Flink graduated in December from the Incubator. The transition is complete by now, the first release and committer addition as a TLP have happened. The community is growing, judging from mailing list activity, number of meetup group talks, bug reports, etc COMMUNITY * Last committer was voted in February 6th, 2015 (Maximilian Michels) * Last PMC member was added December 17, 2014, when all committers and a subset of the mentors formed the project Flink PMC during graduation. * The project community is active (February 1st to 11th: 57 messages in user mailing list, 191 messages in dev mailing list, 244 messages in commits list, 887 messages in issues mailing list) * Community is actively developing the software. JIRA reports 139 new issues and 121 solved issues in the last 30 days * The issue of trademarking Flink is still ongoing. The process has started (same as last month) COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES * Growing the user community further * Integration with other Apache projects is work in progress. As of the last 30 days specifically SAMOA (incubating) and Tez (per mailing lists). RELEASES * Date of last release: January 19th, 2015 (version 0.8.0) * Candidate for release version 0.8.1 has been created (February 10th).
DESCRIPTION ----------- Flink is a distributed Big Data system for expressive, declarative, and efficient batch and streaming data processing and analysis. Flink’s stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala, a type analysis and serialization framework, a library of out-of-core enabled operators, distributed task scheduling, and a data streaming network subsystem. Flink is a citizen of the Hadoop ecosystem and interacts with HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, HBase, and Tez. ISSUES ------ There are no issues that require board attention. STATUS ------ Flink recently graduated in December from the Incubator. The infrastructure for becoming a top-level project has been set up, the renaming of the mailing lists is partially done (as of the time of writing this report). The Apache press team announced the graduation on January 12th. There is a decent media echo. COMMUNITY --------- * Last committer was voted in November 20th, 2014 (Timo Walther) * When graduating to a TLP (December 17, 2014), all committers and a subset of the mentors formed the project Flink PMC * The project community is active and growing (January 1st to 11th: 25 messages in user mailing list, 180 messages in dev mailing list, 126 messages in commits list, 314 messages in issues mailing list) * Community is actively developing the software. JIRA reports 72 new issues and 54 solved issues in the last 30 days * The issue of trademarking Flink is still ongoing. The process has started. * December and January have various Flink-related meetups (sample below): - December 11th – Netherlands Hadoop User Group - January 21st – Bay Area Hadoop User Group - January 28 – Bay Area Tez User Group - January 28th – Berlin Flink User Group COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES -------------------- * Defining and agreeing upon a new 6-12 months roadmap (currently discussed on the mailing lists) * Growing the user community further * As a special case of the community growth, Flink would like to interact stronger with other Apache projects (TLP and Incubator). Roadmap draft includes integrating for example with Zeppelin, SAMOA, Tez, and Mahout. Integration with Hive is under discussion. RELEASES -------- * Date of last release: Oct 26th (0.7-incubating), while Flink was still in the incubator. * Release candidates for version 0.8 have been created (RC1 rejected by PMC vote, RC2 validation happening as of the time of writing this report)
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, for distribution at no charge to
the public, related to fast and reliable large-scale data
analysis with focus on programmability, optimizability,
efficiency, and combination of batch and streaming data
processing.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Flink Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Flink Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to fast and reliable large-scale data analysis
with focus on programmability, optimizability, efficiency,
and combination of batch and streaming data processing;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Flink" 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 Flink Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache Flink 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 Flink Project:
* Márton Balassi <mbalassi@apache.org>
* Ufuk Celebi <uce@apache.org>
* Stephan Ewen <sewen@apache.org>
* Gyula Fora <gyfora@apache.org>
* Alan Gates <gates@apache.org>
* Fabian Hueske <fhueske@apache.org>
* Vasiliki Kalavri <vasia@apache.org>
* Aljoscha Krettek <aljoscha@apache.org>
* Robert Metzger <rmetzger@apache.org>
* Till Rohrmann <trohrmann@apache.org>
* Henry Saputra <hsaputra@apache.org>
* Sebastian Schelter <ssc@apache.org>
* Kostas Tzoumas <ktzoumas@apache.org>
* Timo Walther <twalthr@apache.org>
* Daniel Warneke <warneke@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Stephan Ewen
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Flink, 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 Flink 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 Flink Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Flink Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator Flink podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Flink podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7B, Establish the Apache Flink Project , was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
Flink is an open source system for expressive, declarative, fast, and efficient data analysis. Flink combines the scalability and programming flexibility of distributed MapReduce-like platforms with the efficiency, out- of-core execution, and query optimization capabilities found in parallel databases. Flink was originally known as Stratosphere when it entered the Incubator. Flink has been incubating since 2014-04-14. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Community growth Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None How has the community developed since the last report? Two new committers were voted into the project: Márton Balassi and Gyula Fóra. There were presentations on Flink at the VLDB keynote, a meetup in Stockholm (more than 150 participants), one in Pasadena, CA and two meetups in Berlin. There are upcoming talks in Palo Alto, CA and at the Apache Con in Budapest. The dev@flink mailing list had more than 300 messages on average in the last months. The user@ list 124 in October. How has the project developed since the last report? Flink has released two major versions (0.6-incubating and 0.7-incubating) in the last three months. (There was also a minor bugfix release for the 0.6-incubating release). The Apache MRQL (incubating) project has added support for running programs with Flink. There is an effort within the Flink community to integrate with Apache Tez. Date of last release: 2014-10-26 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2014-09-06 Signed-off-by: [ ](flink) Sean Owen [x](flink) Ted Dunning [ ](flink) Owen O'Malley [X](flink) Henry Saputra [ ](flink) Ashutosh Chauhan [X](flink) Alan Gates
Flink is an open source system for expressive, declarative, fast, and efficient data analysis. Flink combines the scalability and programming flexibility of distributed MapReduce-like platforms with the efficiency, out-of-core execution, and query optimization capabilities found in parallel databases. Flink was originally known as Stratosphere when it entered the Incubator. Flink has been incubating since 2014-04-14. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. First incubator release 2. Continue with community growth 3. More comfortable with ASF policies and processes Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None How has the community developed since the last report? One new committer has been accepted into the project. We received a large external code contribution and pending reviews. The project started a bi-weekly Hangout. How has the project developed since the last report? The project has moved all infrastructure to Apache, the source code has been renamed to the "org.apache.flink" namespace. We are finalizing the preparations for the first Incubator release Date of last release: 2014-05-31 (no incubator release yet) When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2014-07-10 Signed-off-by: [ ](flink) Sean Owen [ ](flink) Ted Dunning [ ](flink) Owen O'Malley [X](flink) Henry Saputra [ ](flink) Ashutosh Chauhan
Flink is an open source system for expressive, declarative, fast, and
efficient data analysis. Flink combines the scalability and programming
flexibility of distributed MapReduce-like platforms with the efficiency,
out-of-core execution, and query optimization capabilities found in parallel
databases. Flink was originally known as Stratosphere when it entered the
Incubator.
Flink has been incubating since 2014-04-14.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. The new name ("Flink") has still not been confirmed by the trademark
team.
2. Setup of release infrastructure and first release
3. Continue with community growth
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Two presentations (Meetup in Nice by a committer, one in Budapest by a
contributor), new users are showing up on the mailing list and on JIRA.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Most of the infrastructure setup has been done. Users start using the new
mailing lists.
In the last month, 21 authors have pushed 120 commits to master. On
master, 910 files have changed and there have been 74,313 additions and
37,094 deletions.
Date of last release:
2014-05-31 (no incubator release yet)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](flink) Sean Owen
[ ](flink) Ted Dunning
[ ](flink) Owen O'Malley
[X](flink) Henry Saputra
[ ](flink) Ashutosh Chauhan
[X](flink) Alan Gates
Flink is an open source system for expressive, declarative, fast, and efficient data analysis. Flink combines the scalability and programming flexibility of distributed MapReduce-like platforms with the efficiency, out- of-core execution, and query optimization capabilities found in parallel databases. Flink has been incubating since 2014-04-14. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Infrastructure setup (git, JIRA, mailing list renaming) 2. Release 3. Build an ASF community Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. How has the community developed since the last report? The community still "lives" outside the ASF since the infrastructure is not ready. Two new contributors opened pull requests since the last report. How has the project developed since the last report? The community has voted for a new name, so the project is moving away from its old name "Stratosphere" to the new one: "Flink". We are still waiting for Infra to rename the mailing list, to create a JIRA (blocked by the mailing list) and create a Git repository (blocked by the SGA (which we already provided)). We released a new major release (0.5) outside the ASF. Date of last release: 2014-05-31 (no incubator release yet) When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Only initial committers. Signed-off-by: [ ](flink) Sean Owen [X](flink) Ted Dunning [ ](flink) Owen O'Malley [X](flink) Henry Saputra [ ](flink) Ashutosh Chauhan [X](flink) Alan Gates Shepherd/Mentor notes: Konstantin Boudnik (cos): Project dev@ list has healthy traffic. Some of the mentors are active on the list and helping community. No visible issues.
Stratosphere is an open source system for expressive, declarative, fast, and efficient data analysis. Stratosphere combines the scalability and programming flexibility of distributed MapReduce-like platforms with the efficiency, out- of-core execution, and query optimization capabilities found in parallel databases. Stratosphere has been incubating since 2014-04-14. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Find a new project name 2. Release 3. Build an ASF community Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. How has the community developed since the last report? This is the first report. We got 2 Google Summer of Code students and one new external contributor opened a pull request. How has the project developed since the last report? This is the first report. We are stabilizing the code base for a new major release (0.5). We are currently setting up the initial infrastructure at the ASF incubator. Date of last release: 2014-01-13 (no incubator release yet) When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Only initial committers. Signed-off-by: [ ](stratosphere) Sean Owen [x](stratosphere) Ted Dunning [ ](stratosphere) Owen O'Malley [ ](stratosphere) Henry Saputra [ ](stratosphere) Ashutosh Chauhan [X](stratosphere) Alan Gates Shepherd/Mentor notes: Dev. list look pretty good, traffic is high and mentors participation is certainly there.