Thanks Ismael. This looks good to me -- I'm not too worried about pushing back the release 1.11.0 to the latter half of the year, especially since the Java 1.10.2 release is a good step in the meantime for downstream projects.
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 9:17 PM Ismaël Mejía <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > You will find here the Avro report for this quarter, let me know if > any comments or ideas to improve it or to improve future versions. > > ## Description: > > Apache Avro is a data serialization system with a compact binary format. It is > used for storing and transporting schema driven serialized data. The unique > features of Avro include automatic schema resolution - when the reader's > expected schema is different from the actual schema with which the data was > serialized the data is automatically adapted to meet reader's requirements. > > ## Issues: > > There are no issues requiring board attention. > > ## Membership Data: > Apache Avro was founded 2010-04-20 (10 years ago) > There are currently 34 committers and 24 PMC members in this project. > The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. > > Community changes, past quarter: > - No new committers. Last addition was Kengo Seki on 2020-07-08. > - No new PMC member elected. Last addition was Ryan Skraba on 2020-09-14 > > ## Project Activity: > > An Avro implementation based on Rust was integrated into Apache Avro (donated > by Yelp). Due to this and some in progress contributions the Avro 1.11.0 > release was slightly delayed to Q3. > > For those who prefer metrics: > > Mailing Lists: > - [email protected] had 665 emails (43% decrease) > - [email protected] had 37 emails (54% increase) > - [email protected] had 155 emails (51% decrease) > > JIRA: > - 63 issues opened (-28% change) > - 35 issues closed (-43% change) > > Commit activity: > - 107 commits in the past quarter (-52% decrease) > - 14 code contributors in the past quarter (-41% change) > > GitHub: > - 93 PRs open (-35% change) > - 86 PRs closed (-38% change) > > ## Community Health: > > Community health is doing well at drawing in contributions. The pace was lower > during this quarter, the number of contributors diminished. We had the > donation of an Avro implementation on Rust which we expect will grow in > interest once released. The PMC keeps the ongoing track of recognizing > contributors through committership. > > We are slight off of our expected release cadence (average a release every two > quarters due to the new codebase and some unfinished work). Work to modernize > some implementations (C++/Ruby) is still ongoing as well as the intention to > downstream Avro releases into other downstream Apache projects eagerly.
