Here is the report I pushed just now. Corrections welcome! ## Description: The mission of Apache Impala is the creation and maintenance of software related to a high-performance distributed SQL engine
## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Impala was founded 2017-11-14 (3 years ago) There are currently 52 committers and 33 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Csaba Ringhofer on 2020-02-18. - Anurag Mantripragada was added as committer on 2020-05-13 ## Project Activity: This quarter, the Impala community added support (or improved support) for: - GROUPING, INTERSECT DISTINCT, EXCEPT DISTINCT, and uncorrelated subqueries in HAVING - Development environment bootstrapping with GCC 7 and on Ubuntu 20.04 and SLES12 sp5 - Sanitizers like ASAN and TSAN in developer testing - Asynchronous code execution so a query can start in interpreted mode and switch to native code when code generation is complete - TPCDS queries in the test suite - Running in containerized environments The Impala community improved compatibility with other Apache projects by: - Adopting Apache DataSketches KLL structure for quantile estimation - Recognizing the new ASF URL practices when downloading Maven and Ant - Improving support for Apache Hive ACID tables - Adding Apache Iceberg CREATE TABLE support - Adding a number of Apache Kudu compatibility improvements - Supporting Apache Parquet FIXED_LEN_BYTE_ARRAY DECIMAL - Supporting Apache Hadoop Ozone in "load data inpath" The Impala community removed some or all support for the following in the 4.0 branch: - Dateless timestamps - Impala-lzo - Sentry - Hive 2 ## Community Health: The community is overall healthy. This quarter has a common amount of variability in some previous metrics. It is not infrequent that this variability has no plainly obvious cause. - Commits are down this quarter from 221 to 197. - Six community members authored their first patch. - JIRAs created is down to 315 from 360; JIRAs resolved are up to 357 from 243. A significant number of these are Later, WontFix, CannotReproduce, etc. - user@ traffic is up 50% to 30 emails; dev@ traffic is down 48% to 69 emails.
