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- Est. release process for ZIP of source code
- Est. release process for Docker and other platform binaries
- Increase additional company and individual Contributors to maintain all project repos.
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How has the community developed since the last report?
incubator-openwhisk Github stars: 2181 (+253 since last report)
incubator-openwhisk GitHub forks: 469 (+52 since last report)
- dev mailing list activity continues to be activeTBD
- The bi-weekly Zoom "Technical Interchange" continues to be well received and attended.
- Complete videos posted to OW YouTube channel and detailed notes to our CWIKI.
New Contributors:
Brendan McAddams: Red Hat: Akka expert working on creating separate Akka dispatchers for CouchDB and Kafka Clients
- Kavitha Vallari Devara: Samsung FaaS team in "Open Service Lab of Convergence Team (SW R&D Center): incubator-openwhisk organizing project directory structure.
Gabriel Nicolas Avellaneda: independent. CLI contributions
Manjiri Tapaswi: N. Caroline State Univ. (NCSU): Fixed all "good first issues" for "incubator-wskdeploy"
Stig Bakken, Zedge (mobile phone customization), first review of PR in Kube repo.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Focus on improved per-invocation (of Actions) performance via logging and other improvements.
- Continued focus in HA/Clustering enablement while continuing to reduce reliance on Ansible for configuration.
- e.g., controller creates health and cacheInvalidation topics #2991
- Kubernetes (incubator-openwhisk-deploy-kube)
Moved Travis testing to using Minikube & more current Kubernetes version (1.7.4)
Significant progress on supporting deploy of complete OpenWhisk system on Kubernetes, eliminating custom containers, and streamlining deploy process
Separation of Language
incubator-openwhisk Github stars: 2181 (+253 since last report)
incubator-openwhisk GitHub forks: 469 (+52 since last report)
- TBD: Kubernetes project seeks to enable MiniKube with latest Kube/Docker drivers
Separation of CLI and language runtimes into their own top-level repos. (10/17):
Generate maven snapshot artifacts #3060
openwhisk-package-deploy:
New repo created with proper license, docs, tests, and Travis CI
New action wskdeploy allows to deploy wskdeploy git repos
openwhisk-packages-cloudant/couchdb:
Update to feed action to update trigger config (dbName)
Update to feed action to return config and status
openwhisk-packages-kafka:
New ability for feed action to return config and status
- Update to feed action to update trigger config (topic)
openwhisk-packages-alarms:
New ability for feed action to return config and status
New alarm trigger type interval
New alarm trigger type fire once
New StartDate and stopDate parameters for cron
openwhisk-cli:
New canonical source after duplication removal from main repo
New open issues moved from main repo to CLI repo
New triiger feed lifecyles on `trigger get` and `trigger update`
- Note: there was an issue with pushing Docker images to DockerHub for ~2 week period fixed on 11/27; effects were that Travis builds on 11/28 suddenly experienced a issues from the backlog of updates that went untested.
Significant Pull Requests (PRs):
- 9/12: Use latest version of Akka HTTP #2726
- 9/12: Make nginx more performant acting as a proxy. #2727
- 9/21: Removing 'Swift 3.1.1' from build. #2737
- 9/18: Added --result to invoke action #2750
- 9/21: Add git pre-commit hook scripts for Scala formatting #2782
- 9/27: update apigw end-to-end to be more resilient #2724
- 10/12: Change logging backend from log4j to Logback #2818
10/17: Option to use docker pause/unpause instead of docker-runc pause/unpause #2828
- 10/18: Added support for configurable java action method name (#2590) #2754
- 10/18: Make redis optional on deployment #2868
- 10/20: Added support for configurable java action method name. #2875
- 10/20: Update nodejs to 6.11.4 #2879
10/27: Emit metrics via kamon #2857
This PR implements the capability to send metric information via Kamon (http://kamon.io/) to statsd (https://github.com/etsy/statsd) instead or additionally to the existing metrics information which is written into the system logs.
- 11/7: use ZooKeeper as persistent store for invokerId assignment #2916
- 11/9: Reduce memory consumption for invocations of cached actions #2730
- 11/10: Reorganization of the "core" folder to move folders associated with runtimes to "actionRuntimes" in root folder #2933
- 11/10: Add the support of certificate checking for secure mode #2864
- 11/17: Programmatic lazy creation of completedN and invokerN topics #2948
11/17: Initial support for nodejs8 #2958
- 11/29: Add couchdb clustering #2810 (still pending issues being worked as issues)
11/21: Removal of openwhisk cli and cli related test cases #2979
11/23: Enable controller HA by default #2994
11/28: Adapt timeouts of controller and nginx. #3010
9/27: update apigw end-to-end to be more resilient #2724
Outstanding issues and PRs of note
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