Good point. I added an additional bullet below.
## 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 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.
- A new independent project called Feather is using Arrow as a format for
writing
to disk. This has also increased engagement with Arrow itself and we have
a number
excited communities including R & Python (and the Julia community
experimenting).
## 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
