Hi all, HBase submits a report to the ASF board once a quarter, to inform the board about project health. I'm sending the report to the user@ and dev@ mailing lists because you are the project, and for transparency. If you have any questions about the report or the running of the project, you can post them to any PMC member or committer, or send an email to priv...@hbase.apache.org, which every PMC member subscribes to.
## Description: Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware. hbase-thirdparty is a set of internal artifacts used by the project to mitigate the impact of our dependency choices on the wider ecosystem. hbase-connectors is a collection of integration points with other projects. The initial release includes artifacts for use with Apache Kafka and Apache Spark. hbase-filesystem contains HBase project-specific implementations of the Apache Hadoop FileSystem API. It is currently experimental and internal to the project. hbase-operator-tools is a collection of tools for HBase operators. Now it is mainly for hosting HBCK2. hbase-native-client is a client library in C/C++, in its early days. ## Issues: We were unable to reach consensus on a contentious design issue (the "split meta" problem), after attempting mediation and collaborative design. The effort is now on hold indefinitely and it is unclear if there will be a successful outcome in the future. ## Membership Data: Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (11 years ago) There are currently 95 committers and 56 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - Bharath Vissapragada was added to the PMC on 2021-07-30 - Baiqiang Zhao was added as committer on 2021-07-07 ## Project Activity: Recent releases: 2.4.6 was released on 2021-09-18. 2.3.6 was released on 2021-08-02. 2.4.5 was released on 2021-07-31. 1.7.1 was released on 2021-07-23. 3.0.0-alpha-1 was released on 2021-07-20. We are actively considering EOL for the 2.3.x release line. https://s.apache.org/i56se The work for better support object store had a good progress, we decided to implement a general framework which could support different implementations. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26067 https://s.apache.org/zh8ei https://s.apache.org/7hssk https://s.apache.org/7thaz We finally made our first alpha release for the 3.x release line. https://s.apache.org/74sc5 We got trouble in our jenkins jobs as they would report an unstable result when everything is fine, finally we found that it was a bug in the surefire plugin, but so far there is no progress on fixing. https://s.apache.org/mmsmo https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1821 We had some discussions on the InterfaceStability and InterfaceAudience annotations and related modules, and the Yetus community planned to remove these annotations because they want to drop the support for JDK8. We are not yet sure as a community what approach we'll take. https://s.apache.org/bi8qv https://s.apache.org/nhvni https://s.apache.org/uqae1 We backported the open telemetry support to branch-2, and it will be a key feature for our 2.5 release line. https://s.apache.org/9hd86 There was a big improvement on compression support in HBase. We introduced several new modules to better support different compression codecs. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26259 We had been pinged by the infra again about eating all the spaces on jenkins nodes, and this time we made some good progress on uploading the big files to nightlies.apache.org. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-24936 The members in the community had posted several blogs about different modules in HBase. https://s.apache.org/b18si https://s.apache.org/45ymf ## Community Health: - Mailing list activity: d...@hbase.apache.org: 957 subscribers(955 in the previous quarter) 747 emails sent to list(769 in the previous quarter) user@hbase.apache.org: 2017 subscribers(2021 in the previous quarter) 95 emails sent to list(100 in the previous quarter) user...@hbase.apache.org 72 subscribers(73 in the previous quarter) 11 emails sent to list(9 in the previous quarter) - JIRA activity: 248 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-24% change) 203 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-21% change - Commit activity: 605 commits in the past quarter (-17% decrease) 52 code contributors in the past quarter (-16% change) - GitHub PR activity: 263 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-24% change) 261 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-16% change) The community is overall healthy, we should try to cut branch-2.5 and make the next alpha release for 3.0.0 soon.