2010-April Tashi Incubator Status Report

Tashi has been incubating since September 2008.

The Tashi project aims to build a software infrastructure for cloud computing 
on massive internet-scale datasets (what we call Big Data). The idea is to 
build a cluster management system that enables the Big Data that are stored in 
a cluster/data center to be accessed, shared, manipulated, and computed on by 
remote users in a convenient, efficient, and safe manner.

Tashi has previously encompassed just the tools to manage virtual
machines using Xen and KVM, but is gaining the facility to hand out
physical machines as well.

Development activities have included fixes to conform to new python
programming standards, and a module for Zoni to assign ports on
HP blade server switches.

The project is still working toward building a larger user and development 
community.  Michael Ryan, an active committer on the project, has taken a new 
job and is unable to actively contribute to the project any longer. Richard
Gass, who is running a Tashi production environment, has been added as a
committer. Richard introduced the Zoni physical hardware management layer
to Tashi earlier.

Items to be resolved before graduation:
        * Prepare and review a release candidate
        * Develop community diversity (currently Intel and CMU committers)