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.
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## 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 45 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.
- Quanlong Huang was added as committer on 2022-03-04.
- One invited candidate has been working on ICLA/CCLA.
## Project Activity:
According to our release cadence, we released two maintenance releases
in this quarter and helped Apache Spark, Iceberg, and Arrow projects to use
it.
- 1.6.13 (2022-01-20)
- 1.7.3 (2022-02-09)
In addition, we collaborated with the Arrow community and added the official
'USING IN PYTHON' pages for the users.
https://orc.apache.org/docs/pyarrow.html
https://orc.apache.org/docs/dask.html
William proposed to use the 'GitHub issue' feature to lower the hurdle to
contribute
and it's implemented via 'ORC-1094: Enable GitHub issues tab'.
So far, it helps us a lot as a more user-friendly channel by skipping JIRA
login.
## Community Health:
Since we started to use 'GitHub issues', the mailing list activity has
decreased.
However, all the other activities are increased.
