Status of this repository

[mheppner]

The package installer mentions the HDFS service is still in alpha, but there doesn't seem to be anything mentioned in this repository, nor are there any planned milestones or release dates for beta/stable versions. It seems like a lot of people are itching to use this in production, but there hasn't been a release in almost a year, with very few commits since then. Issues are slowly being resolved, but there are still quite a few open that don't have many good answers.

I understand the contributors might be busy with other priorities, and some of the comments on the issues are mentioning a new rewrite soon, but can there be some sort of status update/changelog/milestones added to the README?