December 2025 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments in the pentaho/pentaho-hadoop-shims repository. The main focus was stabilizing Big Data unit tests by reverting prior adjustments to resource paths and expected file counts, ensuring reliable CI signals and reducing flaky test outcomes. The revert preserves test intent while aligning with the current codebase to maintain test accuracy.

November 2025 (2025-11): Focused on stabilizing dependencies in the pentaho/maven-parent-poms repository to improve build reliability and downstream compatibility. Executed a critical CXF rollback by reverting the upgrade from 3.6.4 to 3.6.8 in pom.xml, addressing potential issues with the newer version. The change is encapsulated in commit a7644c6142debcd84ad3592426facd83c318b484 and linked to PPP-5863 for governance.

October 2025 performance summary for the Pentaho repositories. Focused on delivering cloud storage workflow capabilities and improving repository hygiene to support maintainability and scalable deployment. What was delivered: - S3 VFS plugin integrated into Pentaho Kettle and dependency management updated to reference the new plugin artifact, consolidating plugin support after refactor/move. - Cross-repo coordination to ensure compatibility with the S3 VFS plugin across Kettle and Platform, enabling smoother deployment pipelines and reduced integration friction. Major bug fixes and metadata improvements: - Aligned the pentaho-s3-vfs-plugin groupId in Pentaho Platform to project standards (no code changes, metadata/config update) to reduce registry confusion and improve plugin discovery. Impact and accomplishments: - Improves cloud storage accessibility for workflows and ETL processes, reducing manual configuration and potential build issues. - Improves maintainability and future-proofing through consistent plugin metadata and dependency management across repositories. - Demonstrates end-to-end ownership from feature integration to registry hygiene, with clear traceability to backlog item [BACKLOG-46636].

In November 2024, the team focused on stabilizing core automation and repository maintenance by reverting experimental changes that affected authentication for PDI mail steps and by restoring the repository cleaning mechanism to its original behavior. These actions deliver business value by preserving existing workflows, reducing upgrade risk, and improving overall system reliability.