The end of date for nominating Chair candidates should be 2024-11-05. Sorry for the typo, I was copying it from last year's email.
Benchao Li <[email protected]> 于2024年10月22日周二 10:04写道： > > Hello community, > > Nine years ago (22 October 2015) Calcite graduated as a top-level > Apache project [1]. At that point, the community decided to have an > annual "state of the project" discussion, and we arrived at that time > of the year. > > We have released two versions of Calcite (1.37.0 and 1.38.0) so far in > 2024 [2]. The number is relatively lower than previous years (4 in > 2023, 3 in 2022). With over 300 commits, it is evident that we have > accomplished a significant amount of work. It is worth highlighting > features such as the introduction of the Arrow Adapter, the addition > of support for lambda expressions in SQL, new grammars such as the AS > MEASURE clause, ASOF join, and the EXCLUDE clause in window > aggregations, as well as the ability to call table functions without > the TABLE() wrapper. > > Regarding the sub-project Avatica, we have one release (1.25.0) so > far, and perhaps one more [3] coming before the end of the year. There > has been no release for Avatica Go in 2024, and it has been almost a > year since the last release. However, there are several new commits > that may warrant a release in the near future. The development > activity of both Avatica and Avatica Go remains relatively low, but > the project is healthy as there are various regular maintainers (such > as Francis Chuang). > > In terms of the community, we have only one new Committer thus far, > Norman Jordan, which is much fewer than previous years (14 in 2023, 4 > in 2022). Many contributors have made outstanding contributions to the > project, for which we are extremely grateful, and we hope to > eventually invite them as Committers once they have accumulated > sufficient merits. Our PMC team has expanded with two new PMC members, > Sergey Nuyanzin and Mihai Budiu. Calcite grows and evolves because of > (and thanks to) its community, and I would like to express my > gratitude to everyone for being a part of this family and working > together in a respectful and motivating environment. In addition to > the membership of Calcite, there are also three new Apache members[4] > from the Calcite community this year, namely Francis Chuang, Sergey > Nuyanzin, and Benchao Li, indicating that our community is strong and > stable. > > It was delightful to see our community members presenting talks about > Calcite at conferences such as SIGMOD and ApacheCon Asia. Since > Calcite has numerous users and contributors from Asia, I attempted to > organize a dedicated track for Calcite earlier this year, but was > unable to gather enough talks. Nevertheless, it is pleasing to note > that we still have three talks related to Calcite. > > Regarding the PR review problem that has been frequently mentioned in > past years, it persists, but it is encouraging to see that new > reviewers are constantly joining the team. > > To conclude, I will repeat the questions from previous years: > 1) What else are we doing well in the project? > 2) What areas do we need to do better? > > Please take some time to share your thoughts! Note that this > discussion is for everyone, not only for committers / PMC members; > even if you have never sent an email to the dev list before, now it is > a good time to do so. > > Finally, it has been a great privilege to serve as Calcite's PMC Chair > this year, I've leart a lot during the journey and I am very grateful > for the opportunity that I was given. Following our yearly rotation > tradition, I will step down as Chair by the end of the year, and a new > one will have to be chosen. As we discussed some time ago [5], if you > have any suggestion and you would like to put someone forward as a > potential next Chair, please send an email to > [email protected]. The nomination period for the new chair > will remain open for the next two weeks (till 2023-11-05). The PMC > will study all proposals, discuss, and start a vote soon after > 2023-11-05. The change will be effective some time in December once > the resolution is approved by the board. > > [1] https://calcite.apache.org/news/2015/10/22/calcite-graduates/ > [2] https://calcite.apache.org/news/ > [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread/l5qk9z5qr57qxtd2d2yyfzm5x0yp40lp > [4] > https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache-software-foundation-welcomes-59-new-members > [5] https://lists.apache.org/thread/gplfqs4snr1b6h62cngyvb65sz41z3fk > > -- > > Best, > Benchao Li -- Best, Benchao Li
