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: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (12 years ago) There are currently 96 committers and 56 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Bharath Vissapragada on 2021-07-30. - Huang Zhuoyue was added as committer on 2021-10-14 ## Project Activity: Recent releases: hbase-thirdparty-4.0.1 was released on 2021-12-28. 2.4.9 was released on 2021-12-24. hbase-operator-tools-1.2.0 was released on 2021-12-24. 3.0.0-alpha-2 was released on 2021-12-23. hbase-thirdparty-4.0.0 was released on 2021-12-10. 2.4.8 was released on 2021-11-03. 1.4.14 was released on 2021-10-25. 2.3.7 was released on 2021-10-19. 2.4.7 was released on 2021-10-18. We have received a new donation and infra is currently setting up a new dedicated jenkins controller for us. https://s.apache.org/i1rox The HBASE-26067 feature branch has been merged back to master and branch-2. It makes HBase work better with cloud object stores which is very useful for the cloud users and is a big step on making HBase cloud native. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26067 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26584 https://s.apache.org/2slqr https://s.apache.org/nk6vr The HBASE-26233 feature branch has been merged back to master. It greatly reduces the latency of our region replication feature, and is also the first step of decoupling the WAL system and replication framework, which is very important for making HBase fully cloud native. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26233 https://s.apache.org/8q7h1 https://s.apache.org/die6s We were also affected by the log4j2 vulnerabilities. Luckily our stable release lines are still on log4j1. We released 3.0.0-alpha-2 and hbase-operator-tools-1.2.0 for addressing the vulnerabilities. In one of the release vote thread, the community members discussed whether we'd better switch to logback instead of log4j2, or make HBase 'logging framework free'. No decisions have been made so far. https://s.apache.org/r1lbk https://s.apache.org/53800 We have marked 2.3.x EOL and moved the stable pointer to 2.4.x. https://s.apache.org/gbm4b https://s.apache.org/5r5wq We have made the final 1.4.14 release for 1.4.x release line and marked 1.4.x EOL. https://s.apache.org/znnxw ## Community Health: - Mailing list activity: d...@hbase.apache.org: 955 subscribers(957 in the previous quarter) 897 emails sent to list(747 in the previous quarter) user@hbase.apache.org: 2010 subscribers(2017 in the previous quarter) 88 emails sent to list(95 in the previous quarter) user...@hbase.apache.org 72 subscribers(72 in the previous quarter) 10 emails sent to list(11 in the previous quarter) - JIRA activity: 308 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (17% increase) 263 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (19% increase) - Commit activity: 914 commits in the past quarter (39% increase) 61 code contributors in the past quarter (19% increase) - GitHub PR activity: 304 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (7% increase) 294 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (3% increase) The increase of the numbers is partly because we merged two feature branches back. And the log4j2 vulnerabilities also contribute extra traffic on our dev mailing list as we have to keep publishing new RCs when there are new log4j2 releases out. Currently we are looking forward on the first 2.5.x release and the first beta release for 3.0.0.