Roundup November 2020

Roundup November 2020

With 2020 coming to a close, we’ve started preparing for 0.50, which will be our first Apache release. We’ll have more news on that soon!

At the start of the final month of 2020, let’s have a closer look at what happened at Apache Hop in November.

Apache Hop Incubation - infrastructure

Our migration to the Apache Software Foundation infrastructure is now done. All references to Project Hop have been changed to Apache Hop (Incubating).

All software and documentation code have been moved to apache-hop-* repositories. All builds have been ported or recreated, some additional features have been added (e.g. PR builds over GitHub Actions). Thank you Hans to get all of this to work seamlessly!

New Plugins

Quite a number of new plugins are now available in Hop:

• Actions
  • Repeat and End-Repeat

• Transforms
  • MongoDB Input and Output
  • CPython: Mark Hall ported the CPython plugin he wrote for Kettle/Pentaho to Hop.
  • Salesforce:
    • Salesforce Delete
    • Salesforce Input
    • Salesforce Insert
    • Salesforce Update
    • Salesforce Upsert

Documentation

As mentioned a couple of times in previous updates, documentation will be work in progress for the foreseeable future. However, there is progress!

We’ve received some additions and updates to the user manual.

The majority of the work was done on the developer documentation (thanks, Hans, Hiromu, Mahendran, Matt!):

• Updated Developer Getting Started
• Updated Porting Kettle Plugins
• New: Metadata Plugins guide
• New: Setting Up Your Development Environment
• New: Hop Plugin Development
• New: WebHop Developer Guide

As always, ping us on mattermost to discuss documentation, and create tickets if you find any missing or incorrect information in the docs. Documentation is code, we take bugs in the documentation just as serious as bugs in the code.

Community

The Hop community continues to grow:

• chat: 108 registered members (up from 104) join
• LinkedIn: 309 followers (up from 263) follow
• Twitter: 233 followers (up from 219) follow
• YouTube: 40 subscribers (up from 38) subscribe
• Facebook: 20 followers (up from 19) like

The following people have been added as committers:

• Peter Fabricius
• Sergio Ramazzina

Check out the complete list of committers and contributors.

Without community contribution, Hop is just a coding club! Please feel free to join, participate in the discussion, test, file bug tickets on the software or documentation, … Contributing is a lot more than writing code.

Check out our contribution guides to find out more.

Various

The full list of issues that had activity over the last month is:

Resolved (76)

In Progress (9)

Open (42)

Closed (15)