I published the following board report. Please do let me know if you want to make any changes.
## Description: Apache Impala is a high-performance distributed SQL engine. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Impala was founded 2017-11-14 (2 years ago) There are currently 50 committers and 32 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 Fredy Wijaya on 2019-07-27. - No new committers. Last addition was Laszlo Gaal on 2019-06-19. ## Project Activity: Notable activity in the last quarter includes: - Version 3.3.0 was released on August 22 - A number of correctness and functional-parity fixes for transactional tables and their tests. Transactional tables are relatively new in Impala - A number of minor improvements to the webui - Improves memory estimation for clusters with dedicated coordinators (i.e. nodes that are not acting as executors) - Continued support for the new catalog version in the pre-merge tests - A JSON formatting of the query profile. For years, the query profile has been unstable, in that the developers reserved the right to change it or its formatting at any time. This is a first step in the direction of stability, which could increase usability and allow tooling built on top of the profile to be more reliable. - Support for .DEFLATE text data files in tables - By default, limits SQL statements to 16 million characters or fewer - A variety of improvements to compatibility with other Apache projects, including Knox, Tez, Derby, Kudu, Ranger, and Hive - The publication of CVE-2019-10084 - Support for cookie-based authentication - Numerous improvements to the end-stages of query lifespans, including some enhancements in resource deallocation - A large number of commits about spooling, which had zero presence in the commit log before July of 2019 - Some support for ZORDER - The addition of DATE support for Avro files; the removal of DATE support for the year 0 - Support for distributable impala-shell. It can be installed from pypi ## Community Health: While the number of commits labeled a "fix" has held steady over the last three quarters at 58, 54, and 59, this last quarter the number of non-"fix" commits dropped to 196 from 252 and 247 the previous quarters. Impala has not had this few commits (of any flavor) in an August-September-October timeframe before (although the repository contains an anomaly in which almost all pre-2014 commits landed in a single moment in January 2014). Overall activity is a mixed bag, but mostly down, with a decrease in email traffic, JIRA activity, and number of distinct patch authors, in addition to the commit number mentioned above. Furthermore, there is usually a lull in activity during our November-December-January reporting quarter due to US holidays. While this is a slowdown, development activity is still high in the context of open-source projects, with dozens of patch authors and activity on hundreds of JIRAs. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Craig L Russell <c...@apache.org> Date: Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 3:02 PM Subject: Impala Board Report due for November 2019 - Initial Reminder To: Jim Apple <jbap...@apache.org> Cc: <priv...@impala.apache.org> This email is sent on behalf of the ASF Board. It is an initial reminder to give you plenty of time to prepare the report. According to board records, you are listed as the chair of a committee that is due to submit a report this month. [1] [2] The meeting is scheduled for Wed, 20 Nov 2019 at 10:30 PST and the deadline for submitting your report is 1 full week prior to that (Wed Nov 13th)! Meeting times in other time zones: https://timeanddate.com/s/3zwe Please submit your report with sufficient time to allow the board members to review and digest. Again, the very latest you should submit your report is 1 full week (7days) prior to the board meeting (Wed Nov 13th). If you feel that an error has been made, please consult [1] and if there is still an issue then contact the board directly. As always, PMC chairs are welcome to attend the board meeting. Thanks, The ASF Board [1] - https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/committee-info.txt [2] - https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/calendar.txt [3] - https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/templates [4] - https://reporter.apache.org/ Submitting your Report ---------------------- Full details about the process and schedule are in [1]. Details about what a report should look like can be found at: https://www.apache.org/foundation/board/reporting Reports should be posted using the online agenda tool: https://whimsy.apache.org/board/agenda/2019-11-20/Impala Cutting and pasting directly from a Wiki is not acceptable due to formatting issues. Line lengths should be limited to 77 characters. If submitting using Whimsy please press Reflow before Submit. Chairs may use the Apache Reporter Service [4] to help them compile and submit a board report. Resolutions ----------- There are several templates for use for various Board resolutions. They can be found in [3] and you are encouraged to use them. It is strongly recommended that if you have a resolution before the board, you are encouraged to attend that board meeting.
