Ryan,
   It looks good. Thanks for including the notice about Tabular/Databricks.

.. Owen

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 9:52 PM Ryan Blue <b...@tabular.io> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Here's my current draft board report for June. If you have anything to add
> or update, please reply and I'll amend the report.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan
>
> ## Description:
> Apache Iceberg is a table format for huge analytic datasets that is
> designed
> for high performance and ease of use.
>
> ## Project Status:
> Current project status: Ongoing
> Issues for the board: None
>
> ## Membership Data:
> Apache Iceberg was founded 2020-05-19 (4 years ago)
> There are currently 27 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
> The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4.
>
> Community changes, past quarter:
> - No new PMC members. Last addition was Szehon Ho on 2023-04-20.
> - No new committers. Last addition was Renjie Liu on 2024-03-06.
>
> ## Project Activity:
>
> Releases:
> - 1.5.1 was released on 2024-04-25
> - 1.5.2 was released on 2024-05-09
> - PyIceberg 0.6.1 was released on 2024-04-30
>
> PyIceberg:
> - Contributors are working to release more often
> - Improved retries for Hive catalog locking
> - Added register table support for Glue catalogs
> - Adding metadata table support (snapshots, manifests, etc.)
> - Working toward 0.7.0 release with partitioned writes and staged table
> creation
>
> Rust:
> - Implemented projection to support partition-based file pruning
> - Implemented the inclusive metrics evaluator and predicate pushdown to
> Parquet
> - Added Hive catalog support
> - Improved REST catalog with OAuth2 and custom headers
> - Added integration with DataFusion
>
> Go:
> - Working toward full expression support; added literals
>
> Iceberg Java:
> - The next Java release, 1.6.0, is targeted for release in June
>
> Specs:
> - Discussions about standardizing metadata for materialized views have
> made good
>   progress. The community decided to use existing objects rather than
> creating a
>   new combined table/view object and is working on metadata details.
> - An extension to the REST protocol for privilege GRANT and REVOKE
> operations
>   was proposed.
> - Many discussions for extending the REST protocol are ongoing, including
> adding
>   routes to plan scans, adding auth decisions, and appending data files
> - There are also discussions for v3 features, like additional types
> (variant,
>   timestampns, and others)
>
> ## Community Health:
>
> The Iceberg community continues to be healthy, with a large number of
> commits
> and individual contributors over the past quarter. Although overall commits
> decreased, the change corresponds with the number of opened PRs so the
> change is
> not a concern for health; PRs are getting reviewed.
>
> The community is formalizing design discussions and has added github
> labels and
> documented a process for making changes to community specs.
>
> The community also held the first Iceberg Summit this quarter, with 32
> sessions
> that are now available on the YouTube (https://tinyurl.com/iceberg-summit
> ).
> Community members also spoke at CoC EU.
>
> A company that employs 3 PMC members and 2 committers was acquired. The PMC
> members (2 of whom are ASF members) have been reminded to act as
> individuals,
> not as representatives of their employer, when interacting in the
> community.
> Concentrations of PMC members is a risk that the community is aware of and
> will
> note in future board reports.
>
> Other projects and announcements:
> - Trino added support for Iceberg views
> - Beam has added an Iceberg sink
> - Confluent, Terradata, and Oracle announced Iceberg support
> - Snowflake announced a new open source REST catalog project
> - Databricks released its catalog that implements the REST spec
>
> --
> Ryan Blue
> Tabular
>

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