From 85ba754e20af4495e28932990eac9b978d05cd93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Davor Bonaci Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 13:12:54 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Blog post on Beam graduation --- src/_posts/2017-01-10-beam-graduates.md | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/_posts/2017-01-10-beam-graduates.md diff --git a/src/_posts/2017-01-10-beam-graduates.md b/src/_posts/2017-01-10-beam-graduates.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..e0e5a47d960 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/_posts/2017-01-10-beam-graduates.md @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: "Apache Beam established as a new top-level project" +date: 2017-01-10 00:00:01 -0800 +excerpt_separator: +categories: blog +authors: + - davor +--- + +Today, the Apache Software Foundation [announced](https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-software-foundation-announces) +that Apache Beam has successfully graduated from incubation, becoming a new Top +Level Project at the foundation and signifying that its "community and products +have been well-governed under the foundation’s meritocratic process and +principles". + + + +Graduation is an exciting milestone for Apache Beam. Becoming a top-level +project is a recognition of the amazing growth of the Apache Beam community, +both in terms of size and diversity. It is fantastic to see ever-increasing +participation on our development and user mailing lists, in pull requests, +and at conferences and meetups. Contributions of additional runners and IO +connectors further show the significant interest from other projects and +organizations in being part of our growing community. + +Although graduation is a statement about community, our technical progress has +also been impressive. We started with code donations from several companies +that were tailored with a specific vendor and scenario in mind and had fragile +component boundaries. The whole community worked extremely hard over the past +year to refactor the codebase and documentation into a truly vendor-neutral and +extensible framework. We have established an impressive engineering system and +processes that promote test-driven development. This concerted focus on quality +and execution excellence enabled us to publish four releases, each significantly +better than the previous. + +Going forward, we will continue to extend the core abstractions to distill +additional complex data processing patterns into intuitive APIs, and, at the +same time, enhance the ability to interconnect additional storage/messaging +systems and execution engines. Together, we are excited to push forward the +state of the art in distributed data processing. + +This is also an opportunity to thank those who helped and supported us reaching +this milestone. None of this would be possible without the Apache Software +Foundation and it’s amazing volunteers who have wholeheartedly welcomed us into +the family. In particular, we’d like to thank the Apache Incubator community +for their guidance producing releases and following processes. We are especially +thankful to the Apache Infra team for their assistance establishing Beam’s +engineering system, particularly in the areas of testing infrastructure and +development productivity. + +On behalf of the whole Apache Beam community, thank you to our incubation +mentors Ted Dunning, Venkatesh Seetharam, and, previously, Bertrand Delacretaz +and Jim Jagielski, for teaching us the Apache Way and guiding us through +incubation. In particular, special thanks goes to our incubation champion and +mentor Jean-Baptiste Onofré, whose extraordinary help, day after day, was +instrumental in getting us here, and who continues as an active code contributor +and a member of the project management committee. + +Please consider joining us, whether as a user or a contributor, as we work +towards our first release with API stability. If you’d like to try out Apache +Beam today, check out the latest +[0.4.0 release]({{ site.baseurl }}/get-started/downloads/). We welcome +contribution and participation from anyone through our mailing lists, issue +tracker, pull requests, and events. From ea98b398aa6a9a45f0cdd1fa0cfd59a9df6a95d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Davor Bonaci Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 00:16:36 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Fixup --- src/_posts/2017-01-10-beam-graduates.md | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/_posts/2017-01-10-beam-graduates.md b/src/_posts/2017-01-10-beam-graduates.md index e0e5a47d960..f17eebdc360 100644 --- a/src/_posts/2017-01-10-beam-graduates.md +++ b/src/_posts/2017-01-10-beam-graduates.md @@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ authors: --- Today, the Apache Software Foundation [announced](https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-software-foundation-announces) -that Apache Beam has successfully graduated from incubation, becoming a new Top -Level Project at the foundation and signifying that its "community and products -have been well-governed under the foundation’s meritocratic process and -principles". +that Apache Beam has successfully graduated from incubation, becoming a new +Top-Level Project at the foundation and signifying that its "community and +products have been well-governed under the foundation’s meritocratic process +and principles". @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ state of the art in distributed data processing. This is also an opportunity to thank those who helped and supported us reaching this milestone. None of this would be possible without the Apache Software -Foundation and it’s amazing volunteers who have wholeheartedly welcomed us into +Foundation and its amazing volunteers who have wholeheartedly welcomed us into the family. In particular, we’d like to thank the Apache Incubator community for their guidance producing releases and following processes. We are especially thankful to the Apache Infra team for their assistance establishing Beam’s