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 46 committers and 14 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. - Yiqun Zhang was added to the PMC on 2022-05-06 - Pavan Lanka was added as committer on 2022-05-23 ## Project Activity: First, according to the new ASF data privacy policy, Apache ORC PMC added a link to ASF Data Privacy Policy at the Apache ORC website front page and also double-checked that Apache ORC website has no custom privacy policy and Google Analytics.. Second, according to our release cadence, we released two maintenance releases in this quarter and helped Apache Spark, Iceberg, and Arrow projects to use it. - 1.7.5 (2022-06-16) - 1.7.4 (2022-04-15) - 1.6.14 (2022-04-14) In addition, we are preparing the following milestones. - 1.7.6 (August) - 1.8.0 (September) - 1.6.15 (September, the End-Of-Support release after 3 year from 1.6.0 on September, 2019) ## Community Health: There was the following comment in the last report. > rbowen: Do you find that the decreased mailing list activity is offset by discussion in the GitHub issues, or has that discussion simply gone away? Apache ORC PMC updated GitHub notification settings about pull requests, issues, and commits explicitly in order to archive all activities to the ASF mailing list. - ORC-1158: Add notification settings to .asf.yaml In this quarter, GitHub PR open/close activities increased by 12% and 26% respectively while mailing list traffic decreased in general.