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## Description:
Pulsar is a highly scalable, low latency messaging platform running on
commodity hardware. It provides simple pub-sub semantics over topics,
guaranteed at-least-once delivery of messages, automatic cursor management
for
subscribers, and cross-datacenter replication.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- The project has graduated as TLP on Sep. 19th.
- Several meetup and conferences talk on Pulsar
* Ivan Kelly has presented Pulsar at BigData Spain on Nov 15th
* A Pulsar intro talk was presented at LeadDevAustin
* Apache Pulsar meetup scheduled for Dec 15th in Shanghai
with talk from several members of community
* Sijie and Jia will present "Unifying the Batch and Stream Elastic
Processing
with Apache Pulsar and Apache Flink" at Flink Forward in Beijing on
Dec 20th.
- A patch release (2.2.1) is being prepared to address all the issues
reported
in 2.2.0 release
- Work is ongoing for next release (2.3.0), scheduled for end of December
for which
we plan to include:
* Apache BookKeeper 4.9.0
* Schema support for C++ and Python
* Token based authentication
## Health report:
- There is healthy grow in the community
- Activity on the Slack channel is still high, many first time users come
to ask questions while getting started. There are 103 weekly active
users
on the channel, up from 92 in November.
- Several new developers have joined the community providing new
feature proposals that were discussed with the community and
finally contributed to the project. We have voted one new committer and
we
plan to start discussion on more committers/PMC pipeline soon.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 23 PMC members
- No new PMC added in the last month -- All existing PPMC member have
joined the PMC
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 24 committers
- 1 Committer added in the last month (Penghui Li - Dec 7th)
## Releases:
- 2.2.0 was released on Oct. 24th
## Mailing list activity:
- Activity on the mailing lists remains high with a mixture of new users,
contributors, and deeper more experienced users and contributors sparking
discussion and questions and filing bugs or new features.
- us...@pulsar.apache.org:
- 84 subscribers (+5 from Nov 2018) - 32 emails sent to list in Nov (35
in Oct)
- dev@pulsar.apache.org:
- 80 subscribers (+5 from Nov 2018) - 40 emails sent to list in Nov (99
in Oct)
## GitHub activity:
- 144 PR from 24 contributors were merged in the last 1 month (up from 131)
- 57 Issues were created and 52 closed in the last 1 month
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Matteo Merli
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