Thanks Michael. Can you add the following to activity:
Julian Hyde attended ApacheCon on Montreal and gave two talks about Calcite. One of these talks was part of the day-long Geospatial track sponsored by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and triggered some good interactions with other Apache projects that are doing Geospatial work; there seems to be growing momentum for these projects to increase involvement with the OGC. +1 Julian > On Oct 1, 2018, at 5:53 AM, Michael Mior <mm...@apache.org> wrote: > > See below a draft of this month's board report. Please let me know if you > have any additions or corrections. Thanks! > > ## Description: > > Apache Calcite is a highly customizable framework for parsing and > planning queries on data in a wide variety of formats. It allows > database-like access, and in particular a SQL interface and advanced query > optimization, for data not residing in a traditional database. > > Avatica is a sub-project within Calcite and provides a framework > for building local and remote JDBC and ODBC database drivers. Avatica has > an independent release schedule and its own repository. > > ## Issues: > > - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. > > ## Activity: > > Development and mailing list activity is steady for both Calcite and its > Avatica sub-project. > > Calcite 1.17.0 was released mid-July with a new multi-dialect SQL parser as > well as the use of JDK 8 features in the core. Avatica Go 3.2.0 was > released early September followed by a bugfix release shortly after. > > We have continued to have a steady string of new committers with solid > contributions. > > ## Health report: > > Activity levels on mailing lists, git and JIRA are normal for both Calcite > and Avatica. > > ## PMC changes: > > - Currently 19 PMC members. > - New PMC members: > - Kevin Risden was added to the PMC on Sun Jul 08 2018 > - Vova Vysotskyi was added to the PMC on Fri Jul 06 2018 > > ## Committer base changes: > > - Currently 35 committers. > - New commmitters: > - Andrei Sereda was added as a committer on Thu Sep 13 2018 > - Sergey Nuyanzin was added as a committer on Mon Jul 23 2018 > > ## Releases: > > - 1.17.0 was released on Thu Jul 19 2018 > - avatica-go-3.1.0 was released on Sat Sep 08 2018 > - avatica-go-3.2.0 was released on Mon Sep 17 2018 > - avatica-1.12.0 was released on Sun Jun 24 2018 > > ## JIRA activity: > > - 212 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months > - 153 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
