## 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. For the following comment about the last report, 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. > 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? ## 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 no Google Analytics. Second, according to our release cadence, we released three 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) 1.6.15 is the End-Of-Support release after 3 year from 1.6.0 on September, 2019. ## Community Health: In this quarter, GitHub PR open/close activities increased by 32% and 47% respectively and Commit activity increased by 22%. JIRA issue open/close activities also increased slightly.
