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## Description:
Lens provides a Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered
data stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query.
It seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear
like one.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Query submission throttling feature is hardened and is very stable feature now.
- Has made release 2.5.0
- Work on migrating to Apache Hive master is complete.
- Many stability related issues are fixed and improvements added on lens server - for example : max limit on open sessions.
- Work on adding Druid driver is almost complete.
- Json support is added on all REST API.
- Apache Lens had about 6 proposals on GSOC, but none of them could make it for final slots.
- The project team had a contributor meet up on 22nd April,2016 in Bangalore, India
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Raju Bairishetti on Wed July 19 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 21 committers.
New Committers :
- Puneet Gupta was added as a committer on Fri Feb 26 2016
- Last Committer addition Puneet Gupta on Fri Feb 26 2016
## Releases:
- Lens-2.5.0-beta was released on Mon Mar 28 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@lens.apache.org:
- 71 subscribers (up 7 in the last 3 months):
- 1860 emails sent to list (1804 in previous quarter)
- user@lens.apache.org:
- 62 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 42 emails sent to list (34 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 90 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 74 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months