Hi all,
please take a look at the draft board report for the last quarter and let
me know if you have any comments.
Thanks,
Arina
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## Description:
- Drill is a Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud
Storage.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Since the last board report, Drill has released version 1.14.0,
including the following enhancements:
- Drill in a Docket container
- Image metadata format plugin
- Upgrade to Calcite 1.16.0
- Kafka plugin push down support
- Phonetic and String functions
- Enhanced decimal data support
- Spill to disk for the Hash Join support
- CGROUPs resource management support
- There were active discussions about schema provision in Drill.
Based on these discussions two projects are currently evolving:
Drill metastore and schema provision in the file and in a query.
- Apache Drill book has been written by two PMC members (Charles and Paul).
- Drill developer meet up will be held on November 14, 2019.
The following areas are going to be discussed:
- Storage plugins
- Schema discovery & Evolution
- Metadata Management
- Resource management
- Integration with Apache Arrow
## Health report:
- The project is healthy. Development activity
as reflected in the pull requests and JIRAs is good.
- Activity on the dev and user mailing lists are stable.
- Three committers and three new PMC member were added in the last period.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 23 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- Boaz Ben-Zvi was added to the PMC on Fri Aug 17 2018
- Charles Givre was added to the PMC on Mon Sep 03 2018
- Vova Vysotskyi was added to the PMC on Fri Aug 24 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 48 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Chunhui Shi was added as a committer on Thu Sep 27 2018
- Gautam Parai was added as a committer on Mon Oct 22 2018
- Weijie Tong was added as a committer on Fri Aug 31 2018
## Releases:
- 1.14.0 was released on Sat Aug 04 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- d...@drill.apache.org:
- 427 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months):
- 2827 emails sent to list (2126 in previous quarter)
- iss...@drill.apache.org:
- 18 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 3487 emails sent to list (4769 in previous quarter)
- user@drill.apache.org:
- 597 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months):
- 332 emails sent to list (346 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 164 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 128 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
