I just posted the following board report: ## Description: The mission of Apache Impala is the creation and maintenance of software related to a high-performance distributed SQL engine
## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing with high activity Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache Impala was founded 2017-11-14 (6 years ago) There are currently 67 committers and 38 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Andrew Sherman on 2023-04-20. - Kurt Deschler was added as committer on 2023-07-03 ## Project Activity: The latest release was 4.1.2 on 2023-04-10. Over the last three months, the Impala community has implemented the following: - Fixed numerous race conditions and one null pointer exception - Fixed several build failures (flaky pre-merge tests) - Improved compatibility with JDK, aarch64, cgroups, Redhat and Ubuntu, LLVM, OpenSSL, and Spring - Improved compatibility with Apache projects Ozone, Maven, Hive, Iceberg, Avro, Hadoop, Atlas, Ranger, Thrift, Kudu, and ORC - Added high availability to the catalog service - Added support for building DEB and RPM packages - Improved performance on TPC-DS - Fixed two query correctness bugs - Made many improvements to cardinality estimations ## Community Health: In answer to the question about community health from the last board report, each patch produces several emails - every review, commit, new version of a patch, and bot linter run produces an email. reviews@ is the most reliable metric of Impala community activity level. There were 4042 emails to that list in June, July, and August. On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 6:48 PM Sander Striker <stri...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello, > > According to our records, you are listed as the chair of Impala, > a committee that is due to submit a report by Wed Aug 9th > 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 Aug 9th 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/2023-08-16/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, 16 Aug 2023 at 21:00 UTC > > which in other time zones is > > https://timeanddate.com/s/4357 > > 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/2023-08-16/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 >
