I sent this report to the ASF board. Dongjoon.
On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 11:42 PM Dongjoon Hyun <[email protected]> wrote: > It's time for our quarterly report to the ASF board. I wrote a draft. > Please let me know if you'd like to add or change anything. > > ---- > ## Description: > The mission of ORC is the creation and maintenance of software related > to the smallest, fastest columnar storage for Hadoop workloads. > > ## Issues: > There are no issues requiring board attention. > > ## Membership Data: > Apache ORC was founded 2015-04-21 (7 years ago) > There are currently 44 committers and 13 PMC members in this project. > The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:1. > > The PMC has been focusing on the community's growth to be > a healthier community by helping candidates. > > - No new PMC members. Last addition was William Hyun on 2021-09-30. > - Yiqun Zhang was added as committer on 2021-11-23 > - One invited candidate has been working on ICLA/CCLA. > > ## Project Activity: > In 2022, we started to build and share the release plan to improve > the visibility and collaboration of the Apache ORC releases for all active > branches. > This is based on our release cadence discussion in 2021. > > - 1.6.13 (2022-01-15) > - 1.7.3 (2022-02-15) > - 1.8.0 (2022-09-15) > > We also released three maintenance releases in this quarter and > helped the downstream Apache projects: Spark, Arrow, Iceberg. > > - 1.7.2 was released on 2021-12-20 > - 1.7.1 was released on 2021-11-07 > - 1.6.12 was released on 2021-11-07 > > In addition, we updated the Apache ORC adopters page for the users. > > https://orc.apache.org/docs/adopters.html > > Lastly, we revisited our test coverage and simplified our CI environment > by migrating AppVeyor CI and Travis CI jobs to GitHub Action CI. > We are expecting improved controllability and speedup in the review > process. > > ## Community Health: > > Due to the seasonal reasons, all activity metrics decreased in this > quarter. > However, we have a good start in the year 2022 in the number of > commits and PRs and new contributors. >
