Monthly community call

Attendees

  • Andrew Musselman
  • Trevor Grant

Intros

Round the room quick introductions

Recap from last month

Notes from previous session

JIRA focus

  1. Assigned to Trevor to repro: Build failed on AArch64, Fedora 33 (need a repro)
  2. Assigned: Web site check
  3. Assigned: Download page improvements
  4. Update NOTICE
  5. Assigned: Migrate off Travis which is required now to roll a release out
  6. Assigned: Add “how to do your first JIRA” notes
  7. Assigned: Add “first ticket” tag or type in JIRA
  8. Edit website
  9. Assigned: Add Docker instructions to nav

Release plans

  • Apr: 14.2, point release with minor improvements and new build system
  • Already done Apr-Jun: Docker images (Zeppelin + Mahout, e.g.)

Ideas

  • Python bindings for DSL (XXXL)
  • Automating or maintaining Docker images (XL, including docs)
  • New parsing and processing modules
    1. Proof of concept blockchain data and metadata (XXL)
    2. Proof of concept GPL/BSD/ALv2/MIT classifier (start with small tutorial)
  • Live code environment (in-browser) to try DSL (XXL for a real version, start with simple env)

Summary and next steps

  • Continue monthly community calls
  • Complete JIRA focus
  • Get travis migration done, nightlies running
  • Push 14.2 out
  • Reevaluate timeline of Ideas in April