Hello all! Here is the report I have prepared for the ASF board for this quarter:
## Description: The mission of Apache Impala is the creation and maintenance of software related to a high-performance distributed SQL engine ## Issues: No issues require board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Impala was founded 2017-11-14 (3 years ago) There are currently 56 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. - No new committers. Last addition was Abhishek Rawat on 2020-12-08. ## Project Activity: During February, March, and April, the Impala community: * Upgrad dependencies: DataSketches, thrift, Impyla, Bzip2, LZ4, Snappy, Zlib, ZStd, urllib3, python requests, Paramiko, springframework, JacksonDatabing, and slf4j * Added improvements to compatibility with ABFS, RHEL 8, Iceberg, S3, Ubuntu 20.04, Ranger, Kudu, Calcite, Google Cloud Storage, UTF-8, Hive, ORC, and docker hub * Addressed reliability for failed nodes and teardowns * Added result spooling * De-flaked many tests * Added most components needed for supporting external frontends * Added support for spilling to S3 ## 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. * 157 patches were committed this quarter, vs. 153 the previous quarter * 212 tickets were opened, up 24%, and 152 tickets were closed, down 67% * reviews@ traffic was up 33% to 3288 emails
