If anyone has any comments on this quarter's board report or anything
to add, please let us know.
Thanks!
Wes
## Description:
Arrow is a columnar in-memory analytics layer designed to accelerate big data.
It houses a set of canonical in-memory representations of flat and hierarchical
data along with multiple language-bindings for structure manipulation. It also
provides IPC and common algorithm implementations.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Heavy development activity and growing community since the last board
report. We have made 3 releases, with the next release 0.5.0 coming soon.
- The Ray project for machine learning from the UC Berkeley RISELab contributed
a large software component, a shared memory object store ("Plasma"), to the
Apache Arrow project.
- The Arrow 0.3.0 release on May 2 included C and Ruby bindings for the Arrow
C++ libraries. We have also seen a native JavaScript (TypeScript)
implementation appear for use.
- We have made significant progress toward completing compatibility between the
Java and C++ implementations of the Arrow memory format. As soon as we
achieve reasonable completeness, we should consider leaping to Arrow 1.0.0 to
communicate to the rest of the open source world that Arrow is no longer as
much of a work-in-progress and ready for more widespread use.
- We have created the arrow-dist git repo to assist with cross-language and
cross-platform packaging.
- Apache Spark has merged its first Arrow integration, SPARK-13534
- The external GPU Open Analytics Initiative is using Apache Arrow as its data
interchange format
## Health report:
- Arrow is seeing an uptick in community interest and adoption. The increase in
activity reflects the project's scope expanding (i.e. more programming
languages) and increase in use in other projects. We expect this trend to
continue as Arrow's perception changes to be deemed more production-ready and
stable.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 19 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Uwe Korn on Wed Apr 12 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 22 committers.
- Kouhei Sutou was added as a committer on Wed May 10 2017
## Releases:
- 0.3.0 was released on Thu May 04 2017
- 0.4.0 was released on Mon May 22 2017
- 0.4.1 was released on Thu Jun 08 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- We changed our JIRA notification schema to send only issue *creation*
e-mails to the primary mailing list, with further comments and edits going
to issues@
- dev@arrow.apache.org:
- 547 subscribers (up 17 in the last 3 months):
- 622 emails sent to list (1098 in previous quarter)
- iss...@arrow.apache.org:
- 11 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1985 emails sent to list (1255 in previous quarter)
- revi...@arrow.apache.org:
- 9 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months)
## JIRA activity:
- 395 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 333 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
