## 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 are actively preparing two more releases this month. - 1.7.4 (April) - 1.6.14 (April) Apache ORC community aims to become an user-friendly project more and more. We collaborated with the Arrow community and added the official 'USING IN PYTHON' pages for the Python users. https://orc.apache.org/docs/pyarrow.html https://orc.apache.org/docs/dask.html Also, 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.