## 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.
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Pavan Lanka on 2023-03-30.
- No new committers. Last addition was Xin Zhang on 2023-02-06.
## Project Activity:
According to our release cadence, we released one minor and two
maintenance releases
in this quarter and helped other Apache communities use them.
- 1.9.0 was released on 2023-06-28.
- 1.8.4 was released on 2023-06-14.
- 1.7.9 was released on 2023-05-07.
In addition, we are preparing the following milestones.
- 2.0.0 (January)
- 1.9.1 (August)
- 1.8.5 (September)
- 1.7.10 (November)
## Community Health:
In this quarter, the number of closed GitHub and Jira issues increased
by 47% and 160% respectively, and the number of code contributors has
increased 13%.
