## 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 47 committers and 15 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.
- Pavan Lanka was added to the PMC on 2023-03-30
- Xin Zhang was added as committer on 2023-02-06
In addition, there are two member status changes inside ORC PMC.
- Alan Gate informed his resignation on 2023-04-07
- Dongjoon Hyun became an ASF Member on 2023-03
## Project Activity:
According to our release cadence, we released two maintenance releases
in this quarter and helped Apache Spark and Iceberg to use it.
- 1.8.3 was released on 2023-03-15.
- 1.7.8 was released on 2023-02-14.
- 1.8.2 was released on 2023-01-13.
In addition, we are preparing the following milestones.
Gang Wu volunteered as a new release manager.
- 1.7.9 (May, Release Manager: Gang Wu)
- 1.8.4 (June)
- 1.9.0 (September)
## Community Health:
There was the following comment in the last report.
> rbowen: I would love to hear more about your initiative of "helping
> candidates."
We have added one new committer and promoted one new PMC member.
In this quarter, user/dev/issues mailing lists have 520%/51%/24%
increase in traffic,
respectively, and the number of code contributors has a 33% increase.
It's a good sign to be a healthier community.
