TiKV graduated within CNCF in September 2020! This is a piece of exceptionally exciting news for the community because it marks the CNCF’s recognition of TiKV’s maturity.
Let’s take a look at what we have achieved in September!
News
@Siddontang shared TiKV Graduation Journey in CNCF at our monthly community meeting, which wrapped up important moments in TiKV’s graduation journey. The recorded video is available here.
To celebrate TiKV’s CNCF graduation, we have made limited edition SWAGs for our contributors and adopters! Claim yours by filling this form.
@nrc initiated Transaction SIG’s Documentation quest! Join the quest if you want to learn about distributed transactions in a fun and effective way!
We have two projects selected by CNCF CommunityBridge projects for Q3-Q4, as listed below. We have received several resumes and coding tasks sent by mentee candidates. The official confirmation on candidates selection will be released by CommunityBridge on October 5. Stay tuned.
Releases
This month our team made 2 releases!
You can review the changelogs here:
Reading materials
@brson shared Generics and Compile-Time in Rust, the episode 2 of Rust compile time series on monomorphization.
Notable PRs
- @chux0519 added dictionary compression support for blob file for titan in #189.
- @NingLin-P added joint consensus support in #8401.
- @Xuanwo implemented non-nullable support for variable argument RPN function in #8740.
- @JmPotato added basic election logic in #2986 and TSO generation logic for the local allocator in #2894.
- @HundunDM implemented a joint consensus builder in #2740 and added some operator steps related to joint consensus in #2895.
- @Yisaer created #2905 to support the scatter region by groups.
- @xhebox added a set of commands to pd-ctl, which makes use of the new bundle API in #2927.
Notable issues
Call for participation
- @Connor1996 opened #8722 to discuss solutions to the increasing Rocksdb write duration.
- @Connor1996 found the compression ratio of L6 is even smaller than L5/L4 and created #8721 to discuss reasons and possible solutions.
New contributors
We’d like to welcome the following new contributors to TiKV and thank them for their work!
If you’d like to get involved, we’d love to help you get started. You might be interested in tackling one of these issues. If you don’t know how to begin, please leave a comment and somebody will help you out. We’re also very keen for people to contribute to documentation, tests, optimizations, benchmarks, refactoring, or other useful things.