An update incorporating your feedback:
## Description:
Arrow is a columnar in-memory analytics layer designed to accelerate big
data.
It houses a set of canonical in-memory representations of flat and
hierarchical data along with multiple language-bindings for structure
manipulation. It also provides IPC and common algorithm implementations.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Awareness continues to increase with the community having done
presentations
at various meetups as well as the following conferences: Pydata Paris,
Hadoop
Summit Ireland, Hadoop Summit San Jose and Berlin Buzzwords.
- The CPP work has made good progress.
- The cross-project work with Parquet has seen substantial work (both in
the
Parquet project and the Arrow project). This should be a great first
example
proof-of-concept integration showing the benefits of an in-memory
columnar layer.
- There has been substantial progress on development of for the IPC /
memory sharing.
- Java development has slowed some but appears to be picking up again.
## Health report:
- We've seen good discussion and development activity since the last
report.
- We need to get to a first release.
- Prior to doing so, the community is working on rudimentary integration
tests between
Java and C++ and more formal format specification.
- More work can be done to make the project approachable to newly
interested parties by
creating additional documentation and quickstart. A sample application
will also help.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.
- Last PMC addition was Abdel Hakim Deneche on Tue Jan 20 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 20 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Ippokratis Pandis at Thu Feb 18 2016
## Releases:
- No releases yet.
## JIRA activity:
- 71 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 40 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi Jacques,
>
> I would mention there's been a significant synergy between C++ efforts
> in Apache Parquet to build a bridge between the projects (which will
> be a nice proof-of-concept of the benefits of the common in-memory
> columnar layer). Uwe Korn has been really active here with 33 commits
> to Parquet and 21 to Arrow.
>
> Micah Kornfield has been contributing significant to the reification
> process of the specs and IPC / memory sharing procedure. We should
> prioritize assembling a more fully formed first-cut metadata spec and
> getting rudimentary integration tests working between the Java and C++
> implementations before we make a release.
>
> - Wes
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 10:00 PM, Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Can I get some feedback and additional details to add to the Arrow Board
> > Report. See my draft below:
> >
> > thanks,
> > Jacques
> >
> >
> > ## Description:
> >
> > Arrow is a columnar in-memory analytics layer designed to accelerate big
> > data.
> > It houses a set of canonical in-memory representations of flat and
> > hierarchical data along with multiple language-bindings for structure
> > manipulation. It also provides IPC and common algorithm implementations.
> >
> > ## Issues:
> >
> > - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
> >
> > ## Activity:
> > - Awareness continues to increase with the community having done
> > presentations
> > at various meetups as well as the following conferences: Pydata Paris,
> > Hadoop
> > Summit Ireland, Hadoop Summit San Jose and Berlin Buzzwords.
> > - The CPP and Python work has seen steady progress and development of a
> > Parquet <> Arrow interchange layer is improving. A small number of
> people
> > are
> > actively moving that forward.
> > - Java development has slowed some but appears to be picking up again.
> >
> > ## Health report:
> > - Discussion and code activity has been sporadic. We saw a good initial
> > flurry
> > of activity but need to make the project more approachable for new
> users.
> > We
> > can do this by doing the following:
> > - We need to get a first release done.
> > - We need to put together a quickstart and demo application for new
> users.
> >
> > ## PMC changes:
> >
> > - Currently 17 PMC members.
> > - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.
> > - Last PMC addition was Abdel Hakim Deneche on Tue Jan 20 2016
> >
> > ## Committer base changes:
> >
> > - Currently 20 committers.
> > - No new committers added in the last 3 months
> > - Last committer addition was Ippokratis Pandis at Thu Feb 18 2016
> >
> > ## Releases:
> >
> > - No releases yet.
> >
> > ## JIRA activity:
> >
> > - 71 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
> > - 40 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
>
