Hello Everyone!
It's time for the quarterly report to the board.
Here is the draft, please let me know if there is anything else to include.
I am aware that Dongjoon is preparing the 2.2.2 release and I will be sure
to include it after it has been announced.
Bests,
William
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## 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 (11 years ago)
There are currently 49 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:2.
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Yuanping Wu on 2025-08-30.
- No new committers. Last addition was Yuanping Wu on 2024-05-15.
## Project Activity:
According to our release cadence, we released three maintenance releases
in this quarter and helped other Apache communities use them.
- 2.1.4 was released on 2026-01-09.
- 2.0.7 was released on 2026-01-08.
- 1.9.8 was released on 2026-01-08.
## Community Health:
Activity was slower this quarter, with traffic down 36% on the dev mailing
list
and 48% on the issues mailing list.
Despite that, the year is off to a solid start with the three releases
noted above.
