## 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 (8 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. - No new PMC members. Last addition was Yiqun Zhang on 2022-05-06. - No new committers. Last addition was Pavan Lanka on 2022-05-23. ## Project Activity: According to our release cadence, we released one feature release and one maintenance release in this quarter. - 1.8.1 was released on 2022-12-02. - 1.7.7 was released on 2022-11-17. We have prepared an SBOM (Software Bill of Materials). - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/SBOM We are looking to release the following versions soon in order to get user feedback on the SBOM. We have adjusted the release date to this month. - 1.7.8 (January) - 1.8.2 (January) ## Community Health: In this quarter, the number of code contributors increased by 20%, and closed GitHub issues increased by 27%. Activities have slowed down due to the Holiday season, but we are looking to return back to normal soon.
