## 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 released 2.2.0 in Febrary. This was a very big release
that included many new features and improvements.
Highlights include:
* Kubernetes support in Pulsar functions
* New Pulsar IO connectors: Change data capture with Debezium, MongoDB,
Elastic Search, HBase and local files source and sink.
* Token based authentication
* Schema support in Python client library
* Function state API in Python
- Several meetup and conferences talk on Pulsar
* Two talks are scheduled for Strata SF in March:
- How Zhaopin.com built its enterprise event bus using Apache Pulsar
from Sijie and Pengui
- Reducing stream processing complexity using Apache Pulsar Functions
from Jowanza Joseph and Karthik Ramasamy
- A patch release (2.3.1) is being prepared to address all the issues reported
in 2.3.0 release
- Work is ongoing for next release (2.4.0), scheduled for end of
December for which
we plan to include:
* NodeJS client library
* Negative acknowledgments
* Replicated subscription state
- Since last report sever PIPs (Pulsar improvement proposals) were submitted:
* PIP 32: Go Function API, Instance and LocalRun
* PIP 31: Transaction Support
* PIP 30: change authentication provider API to support mutual
authentication
* PIP 28: Pulsar Proxy Gateway Improvement
* PIP 29: One package for both pulsar-client and pulsar-admin
* PIP 26: Delayed Message Delivery
## 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.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 23 PMC members
- No new PMC added since last report
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 24 committers
- Last committer added: Penghui Li - Dec 7th
## Releases:
- 2.2.1 was released on Dec. 31st 2018
- 2.3.0 was released on Feb. 20th 2019
## 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:
- 94 subscribers (+10 from Dec 2018) - 103 emails sent to list in
last 3 months
- dev@pulsar.apache.org:
- 97 subscribers (+17 from Dec 2018) - 241 emails sent to list in
last 3 months
## GitHub activity:
- 386 PR from 47 contributors were merged in the last 3 months (up from 131)
- 197 Issues were created and 125 closed in the last 3 months
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Matteo Merli
<mme...@apache.org>
