[VOTE] Release Apache Incubator Shindig version 1.1-BETA2

Greetings,
The shindig community has voted on and approved a proposal to release
1.1-BETA2.  The next step is approval by the Incubator PMC to publish this
release.  The summary is attached below.  Note that we did have to respin
the release twice due to issues with checksums.  Artifacts are here:

https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/shindig-staging-041/

and projects reports are here:

http://incubator.apache.org/shindig/shindig-1.1.x/project-reports.html

Please vote to publish this release by Wednesday, Sep 9 12:00 GMT (adding
extra time since the vote spans a weekend and a US holiday).

[ ] +1 Publish
[ ] +0
[ ] -0
[ ] -1 Don't publish, because...

Much appreciated,

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Paul Lindner <plindner@...>
Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:16 AM
Subject: [VOTE] Release Apache Incubator Shindig version 1.1-BETA2
To: shindig-dev@...

Hi,

Re: [VOTE] Release cassandra 0.4.0-rc1

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Eric Evans <eevans <at> rackspace.com> wrote:

>
> The Cassandra community voted on and approved the release of Apache
> Cassandra 0.4.0-rc1. We would now like to request the approval of the
> Incubator PMC for this release.
>
>
+1 from me.

Matthieu

> Cassandra is a massively scalable, eventually consistent, distributed,
> structured key-value store.
>
> Podling vote thread:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cassandra-dev <at> incubator.apache.org/msg00856.html
> 0.4.0-rc1 artifacts: http://people.apache.org/~eevans<http://people.apache.org/%7Eeevans>
> SVN tag:
>
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/cassandra/tags/cassandra-0.4.0-rc1
> Project home: http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/
> Incubation status: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/cassandra.html
>
> The vote will remain open for 72 hours (or longer if needed).
>
> There was quite a bit of discussion surrounding the last IPMC vote, so
> here is a list of some of the things that were brought up, and where we
> are are on those issues:

Scandinavia Apache Lucene/Solr September Meetup: 9 September

Excuse the cross-posted announcement.  Next week we'll be having a  
Lucene/Solr meetup around the JavaZone conference in Oslo, Norway.

Before, during, AND after - now that's my kind of meetup!

	Erik

Details here and below: http://www.meetup.com/Scandinavia-Apache-Lucene-Solr-Meetup/

September 9th, next Wednesday, 6pm
Radisson SAS Plaza Hotel
Sonja Henies Plass 3
Oslo

Presentations and discussions on Lucene/Solr, the Apache Open Source  
Search Engine/Platform, alongside JavaZone 2009 of Oslo, Scandinavia's  
biggest meeting place for software developers:

Agenda:

	• "Solr at the Speed of Light": Erik Hatcher, Lucene/Solr PMC Member  
and Committer, co-author of Lucene In Action, Lucid Imagination
	• "Migrating from commercial search engines to Solr",Tobias Larsson  
Hult and Eskil Andreen, Findwise SE
	• Presentations followed by Lightning Talks from community  
members:talks are 7-10 minute presentations, electronic, demo, or on  
whiteboard; sign-ups at the event.
We'll have beer and food and socializing before, during and after. 

Review of cassandra NOTICE and LICENSE requested.

Attached are draft copies of LICENSE and NOTICE files for the cassandra
project.

LICENSE is monolithic, it contains a copy of all licenses. It is meant
to replace the texts we currently keep in lib/licenses.

NOTICE contains an entry for all the third-party libraries in our tree
(in so much as that information is available).

It would be great if we could get these reviewed ahead of time so that
any feedback could be incorporated before the next release vote.

Thanks in advance,

--

-- 
Eric Evans
eevans <at> rackspace.com

                                 Apache License
                           Version 2.0, January 2004
                        http://www.apache.org/licenses/

   TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE, REPRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION

   1. Definitions.

      "License" shall mean the terms and conditions for use, reproduction,

[ANN] HBase 0.20.0 available for download

HBase 0.20.0 is available for download:

   http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase/releases.html

The Release Notes are available here: http://su.pr/2sjrkf

This HBase is faster, slimmer, sweeter smelling, and more robust than
previous versions.  We recommend that all upgrade to this release.

HBase 0.20.0 runs on Hadoop 0.20.0.  A lot has changed since 0.19.x
including configuration fundamentals.  Be sure to read the 'Getting Started'
documentation:
http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase/docs/r0.20.0/api/overview-summary.html#overview_description

If you wish to bring your 0.19.x hbase data forward to 0.20.0, you will need
to run a migration.  See http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/HowToMigrate.
First read the overview and then go to the section, 'From 0.19.x to 0.20.x'.

Thanks to all who contributed to this release

Yours,
The HBasistas

P.S. 0.20.0 Highlights include:

+ Much improved performance
+ Master is no longer SPOF
+ Rolling restarts -- no need to take down whole cluster updating config. or
making minor upgrades
+ A new, more comprehensive API (The old API is still present but

Re: Review of cassandra NOTICE and LICENSE requested.

On 09/09/2009, Leo Simons <mail <at> leosimons.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:28 PM, sebb<sebbaz <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On 08/09/2009, Eric Evans <eevans <at> rackspace.com> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > Does the release actually *include* JUnit, or is that only used for testing?
>  > If so, then it should not be the in the NOTICE file, nor in the binary release.
>
>
> Even if it is not in the release I believe there is nothing wrong with
>  putting an acknowledgment in the NOTICE file. (putting terms in the
>  LICENSE file that do not apply is bad, though).
>

I think it's confusing, and NOTICE is supposed to be as minimal as possible.

>  > Is ANTLR actually needed at run-time, or is it only needed for
>  > building the code?
>  > I'm not sure whether it needs to be mentioned in NOTICE if it is only
>  > used at build-time.
>  > It should not be in the binary release if it's not needed at run-time.
>
>
> Same comment -- it shouldn't hurt to have it in NOTICE.
>
>  ciao,
>
>  - Leo, who often gives credit to his stuffed animal wombat in NOTICE files
>

September 2009 Hadoop/Lucene/Solr/UIMA/katta/Mahout Get Together Berlin

Hi,

I cross-post this here, Isabel Drost is managing the meetup. This time it is
more about Hadoop, but there is also a talk about the new Lucene 2.9 release
(presented by me). As far as I know, Simon Willnauer will also be there:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
I would like to announce the September-2009 Hadoop Get Together in
newthinking store Berlin.

When: 29. September 2009 at 5:00pm
Where: newthinking store, Tucholskystr. 48, Berlin, Germany

As always there will be slots of 20min each for talks on your Hadoop topic.
After each talk there will be a lot time to discuss. You can order drinks
directly at the bar in the newthinking store. If you like, you can order
pizza. There are quite a few good restaurants nearby, so we can go there
after the official part.

Talks scheduled so far:
Thorsten Schuett, Solving Puzzles with MapReduce: MapReduce is most often
used for data mining and filtering large datasets. In this talk we will show
that it also useful for a completely different problem domain: solving
puzzles. Based on MapReduce, we can implement massively parallel
breadth-first and heuristic search. MapReduce will take care of the hard
problems, like parallelization, disk and error handling, while we can
concentrate on the puzzle. Throughout the talk we will use the sliding
puzzle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding_puzzle) as our example.

Thilo Götz, Text analytics on jaql: Jaql (JSON query language) is a query

Re: Board Report Due

Hi,

[cc += tika-dev]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsingers <at> apache.org> wrote:
> The September Board Report is located at
>  https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/board-reports/2009/board-report-sept-2009.txt.
>
> Please do your part and fill in for your project.

I added the following for Tika:

    Apache Tika is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and
    structured text content from various documents using existing parser
    libraries.

    Tika 0.4 was released in July. Development continues at the steady pace
    of a few commits per week. User list activity seems to be increasing.

BR,

Jukka Zitting

[CANCELLED] ([VOTE] Release cassandra 0.4.0-rc1)

This vote is being cancelled because it was lapped by the next proposed
release candidate, (and because no one would vote for it). 

On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 10:40 -0500, Eric Evans wrote:
> The Cassandra community voted on and approved the release of Apache
> Cassandra 0.4.0-rc1. We would now like to request the approval of the
> Incubator PMC for this release.
> 
> Cassandra is a massively scalable, eventually consistent, distributed,
> structured key-value store.
> 
> Podling vote thread:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cassandra-dev <at> incubator.apache.org/msg00856.html
> 0.4.0-rc1 artifacts: http://people.apache.org/~eevans
> SVN tag:
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/cassandra/tags/cassandra-0.4.0-rc1
> Project home: http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/
> Incubation status: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/cassandra.html
> 
> The vote will remain open for 72 hours (or longer if needed).

--

-- 
Eric Evans
eevans <at> rackspace.com

[VOTE] Release cassandra 0.4.0-rc2

The Cassandra community voted on and approved the release of Apache
Cassandra 0.4.0-rc2. We would now like to request the approval of the
Incubator PMC for this release.

Cassandra is a massively scalable, eventually consistent, distributed,
structured key-value store.

Podling vote thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/cassandra-dev <at> incubator.apache.org/msg00887.html
0.4.0-rc2 artifacts: http://people.apache.org/~eevans
SVN tag:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/cassandra/tags/cassandra-0.4.0-rc2
Project home: http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/
Incubation status: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/cassandra.html

The vote will remain open for 72 hours (or longer if needed).

There were a number of changes made since RC1 to address concerns raised
in previous votes. Among them:

* License texts in lib/licenses where removed and incorporated into a
monolithic top-level LICENSE.txt. CASSANDRA-371

* Attributions for all third-party code was added to the top-level
NOTICE.txt file. CASSANDRA-371

* Commons javaflow was removed. CASSANDRA-428

* The developers/contributors reference in NOTICE.txt was removed, (as