## 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 49 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
Recently, Yuanping Wu was added to the PMC on 2025-08-29.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:2.
## Project Activity:
According to our release cadence, we released four maintenance releases
in this quarter and helped Apache Spark and Iceberg to use it.
- 2.2.1 was released on 2025-10-01.
- 2.2.0 was released on 2025-07-29.
- 2.1.3 was released on 2025-07-09.
- 2.0.6 was released on 2025-07-07.
## Community Health:
There were the following comment in the last report.
> Repeating again: your committer ratio is very POOR
> ... not enough PMC Members.
> I would think several committers could become PMC Members.
We promoted Yuanping additionally according to the advice.
For the record, in this year,
- Shaoyun Chen was added to the PMC on 2025-03-23.
- Yuanping Wu was added to the PMC on 2025-08-29.
