Here is a draft for this quarter's ASF board report. The Activity /
Health sections are a bit light on detail, if others would like to add
some things feel free to send them along.
thanks
Wes
## Description:
Apache Arrow is a cross-language development platform for in-memory data. It
specifies a standardized language-independent columnar memory format for flat
and hierarchical data, organized for efficient analytic operations on modern
hardware. It also provides computational libraries and zero-copy streaming
messaging and interprocess communication. Languages currently supported include
C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Ruby.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Steady development activity from previous quarter and continued growth in
contributor base
- Added 5 new committers
- First JavaScript-only release (0.2.0) made on December 1
## Health report:
Project is very healthy with a growing developer and user community.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 20 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kouhei Sutou on Fri Sep 15 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 28 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Phillip Cloud was added as a committer on Tue Oct 03 2017
- Bryan Cutler was added as a committer on Wed Oct 04 2017
- Li Jin was added as a committer on Fri Oct 06 2017
- Paul Taylor was added as a committer on Fri Oct 06 2017
- Siddharth Teotia was added as a committer on Wed Oct 04 2017
## Releases:
- 0.8.0 was released on Sat Dec 16 2017
- JS-0.2.0 was released on Fri Dec 01 2017
## JIRA activity:
- 323 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 300 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
