Rangers,
Please review the following draft report and let me know your comments/feedback. Thanks, Madhan ## Description: Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data security - consistently across various data processing services. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Membership Data: Apache Ranger was founded 2017-01-17 (5 years ago) There are currently 30 committers and 20 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Sailaja Polavarapu on 2019-09-18. - No new committers. Last addition was Dhaval Shah on 2021-01-20. ## Project Activity: - Atlas plugin enhancements to handle authorization of classification add/update/remove on entities - Hive plugin enhancements to implement SHOW ROLE GRANT operation, and support new operations - HDFS plugin updates to handle access to paths in snapshots - upgraded Spring framework and security libraries - delegated-admin model updated to scope delegation to specific access-types - fixes in Python library/API - script condition evaluator improvements to make it easier to access details of request/user/groups/tags - policy-engine enhancement to include data-making/row-filtering in getResourceACLs() API - improv Ranger admin startup in handling availability of Solr - performance improvements in user-lookup API implementation - performance improvements to processing of tags by batching ## Community Health: - as the stats below show, the community is active and continue to improve Apache Ranger by adding enhancements and fixes - a large number of enhancements and fixes were added since last release of Ranger. Next minor release, 2.2.0, is likely around mid-September - Ranger is being adopted by major cloud vendors to authorize access to their services/data, for example: - AWS EMR, S3: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/introducing-amazon-emr-integration-with-apache-ranger/ - Azure: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hdinsight/domain-joined/hdinsight-security-overview - Google: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/running-cloud-managed-spark-and-hadoop-using-ranger - Stats - dev@ranger.apache.org had a 8% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (728 emails compared to 783) - u...@ranger.apache.org had a 433% increase in traffic in the past quarter (16 emails compared to 3) - 82 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-21% change) - 61 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-25% change) - 120 commits in the past quarter (-19% change) - 17 code contributors in the past quarter (6% increase) - 12 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (20% increase) - 2 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (100% increase)
