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. hbase-kustomize is for deploying HBase on kubernetes, still under development. ## Project Status: Current project status: ongoing Issues for the board: While resolving the issue about adding 'TM' superscript on hbase.a.o, the trademark team said it should be '®' instead of 'TM', and also wanted to add some notes on the footer of the page. The notes have already been presented on the index page of hbase.a.o, we replied to the email to ask whether this is enough but got no response yet. No action have been made yet. ## Membership Data: Apache HBase was founded 2010-04-21 (14 years ago) There are currently 105 committers and 59 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Bryan Beaudreault on 2023-10-17. - Istvan Toth was added as committer on 2024-04-02 ## Project Activity: 2.5.8 was released on 2024-03-12. hbase-thirdparty-4.1.6 was released on 2024-03-04. 3.0.0-beta-1 was released on 2024-01-14. We have started the vote for releasing 2.6.0. The first RC sunk because of a compatibility issue, and then we faced the xz backdoor problem. Now we are still discussing how to deal with the hbase-compression-xz module. https://lists.apache.org/thread/g26lgy9z840ovo02vq75hys6krbmvxon https://lists.apache.org/thread/on62z40rwotrcc8w1l5n55rd4zldho5g 3.0.0-beta-1 has been released. This is the first beta release for 3.0.0 release line. https://lists.apache.org/thread/lq19rwgy7q668ps8b4lz53my8m16t3yc For 3.0.0-beta-2, we found a place where we still leaked the internal zookeeper to end users, so we are still discussing how to deal with it. It needs to allow users to use something like a URL/URI for specifying the hbase cluster they want to connect to, instead of zookeeper connection string and path. https://lists.apache.org/thread/233p65w5hj80m9plzjgvr8v16zff2d7y ## Community Health: d...@hbase.apache.org: 962 subscribers(960 in the previous quarter) 519 emails sent to list(420 in the previous quarter) user@hbase.apache.org: 1991 subscribers(1986 in the previous quarter) 36 emails sent to list(31 in the previous quarter) user...@hbase.apache.org 79 subscribers(77 in the previous quarter) 11 emails sent to list(17 in the previous quarter) - JIRA activity: 187 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (20% increase) 132 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (8% increase) - Commit activity: 568 commits in the past quarter (21% increase) 41 code contributors in the past quarter (2% increase) - GitHub PR activity: 193 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (19% increase) 183 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (24% increase) The community is overall healthy. We will release 2.6.0 soon, and work towards the 3.0.0-beta-2 release.
