## 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 two maintenance releases
in this quarter and helped other Apache communities use them.
- 1.9.1 was released on 2023-08-16.
- 1.8.5 was released on 2023-09-05.
In addition, we are preparing the following milestones.
- 2.0.0 (January)
- 1.9.2 (November)
- 1.8.6 (December)
- 1.7.10 (November)
## Community Health:
In this quarter, activities have slowed down overall due to the summer season.
We are preparing for the planned releases ahead and looking to return
to normal soon.
