Hello, Impalas! I have posted the below report for November. LMK if you'd like to add anything. Thanks!
## 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 55 committers and 33 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Csaba Ringhofer on 2020-02-18. - Aman Sinha was added as committer on 2020-09-08 - Shant Hovsepian was added as committer on 2020-10-13 - Sheng Wang was added as committer on 2020-11-06 ## Project Activity: During August, September, and October, the Impala community added support (or improved support) for: - More Iceberg support, including ALTER TABLE, INSERT INTO for (non-partitioned tables), ORC, and more - Movement towards FIPS compliance - Error message readability and location improvements - System internals visibility improvements into artifacts like like queues and skews - Daily aarch64 build-and-test runs - Many more patches than a typical quarter about developer experience. Eyeballing it, maybe twice as much? This includes fixing some long-standing build and test issues. - Impala's first patches from contributors at @tencent.com - The addition of support for Alluxio - First SIMD support outside of the x86-64 family ## 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. - 4,278 reviews were sent to reviews@, 2% down from the previous quarter - 272 new JIRA tickets were filed vs. 315 last quarter - 184 patches were committed this quarter, 5% down from last quarter - user@ and saw traffic decrease (31 emails to 19), while dev@ saw it increase (73 emails to 89) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Roy T. Fielding <field...@apache.org> Date: Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 5:59 PM Subject: Impala Board Report due by Wed Nov 11 - Initial Reminder To: Jim Apple <jbap...@apache.org> Cc: <priv...@impala.apache.org> Hello, According to our records, you are listed as the chair of Impala, a committee that is due to submit a report by Wed Nov 11 for the next ASF board meeting. This is an initial reminder to prepare a report for Impala and submit it as described below. In the Apache governance model, the ASF board delegates responsibility for managing projects to PMCs. This allows projects to govern themselves, in terms of their own development goals, guidelines, and volunteer spirit, within the scope of our purpose as an open source foundation. The state allows us to provide an umbrella of corporate protection to our projects and volunteers, but only to the extent that we retain active and effective oversight of each project's operation on behalf of the public's interest. To enable the board to provide oversight across the foundation, each PMC is tasked with providing the board a quarterly report on the health of their project. This allows us to hear your heartbeat, to see the project through your eyes, and to inform the public through our meeting minutes. Thank you for being a responsible project chair and helping us maintain oversight over the Apache Software Foundation. If, for whatever reason, a full report is not possible by the deadline, please report just that. It's okay to postpone a report by a month. Please note that we will be reviewing and approving these reports, asynchronously, during the week prior to our scheduled board meeting. Reports received after Wed Nov 11 will be postponed to the next regular meeting. Please try to submit your report early. Submitting your report ---------------------- Full details about reporting to the board are at https://www.apache.org/foundation/board/reporting Please be aware that the board is looking for your personal observations, assessment, and ideas, not just raw statistics. Chairs may use one of several mechanisms to submit or edit their report: a) the Apache Reporter Service https://reporter.apache.org/ b) the Whimsy online agenda tool https://whimsy.apache.org/board/agenda/2020-11-18/Impala c) carefully editing and committing changes to the dated agenda in https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/foundation/board d) or, if none of the above work, send an email to bo...@apache.org with Subject: [REPORT] Impala If you believe it won't be possible to prepare a report before the deadline, or if the PMC is aware that the Chair is unavailable, please report that and we can reschedule or have someone else report on your behalf. Attending the Board Meeting --------------------------- The formal board meeting (usually an online videoconference) will be held at Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 20:00 UTC which in other time zones is https://timeanddate.com/s/42a2 As always, chairs and ASF members are welcome to attend the board meeting. However, in most cases, we will not be using meeting time to discuss reports unless you specifically request time to speak in person. During the week prior to the meeting, the directors will read the received reports, make comments (if any) within the agenda tool, discuss those comments on the board and/or private committee lists, and vote to approve. If we have comments on a report, we will forward them during the review and attempt to complete any associated action items as well. This will allow us to be more responsive to project needs and give you an opportunity to expand on your report if additional details are requested prior to the meeting. Regular board meetings are held monthly, as scheduled at https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/calendar.txt Requesting a Board Action ------------------------- If you want the board to make a decision related to your report, such as changing the chair, establishing a new committee, or allocating a budget for something related to Impala, you should author a resolution for that purpose or ask a director to do so for you. To make this easier, there are several templates we use for common board resolutions. They can be found in https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/templates or accessible within the Whimsy online agenda tool https://whimsy.apache.org/board/agenda/2020-11-18/Impala If you do place a resolution before the board and that resolution has not been preapproved before the board meeting, you are encouraged to attend the meeting in person to address any last-minute questions or concerns that might arise. Thanks, The ASF Board
