## 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 (9 years ago)
There are currently 49 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:2.
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Pavan Lanka on 2023-03-30.
- No new committers. Last addition was Yuanping Wu on 2024-05-14.
## Project Activity:
According to our release cadence, we released three maintenance releases
in this quarter and helped other Apache communities use them.
- 1.8.8 was released on 2024-11-11.
- 1.9.5 was released on 2024-11-14.
- 2.0.3 was released on 2024-11-14.
In addition, we are preparing the following milestones for the next quarter.
- 2.1.0 (January)
- 2.0.4 (March)
- 1.9.6 (May)
## Community Health:
In this quarter, we have seen an overall increase in
activities with an increase of 80% and 150% for
GitHub PRs and issues closed respectively.
With a 20% increase in traffic for the dev mailing list,
which is a good sign for community growth.
